the patronage of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court Hille, Christiane creator author. text bibliography biography Electronic books. gw 2012 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (some color) "As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham's patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship." (cover - p. 4). Christiane Hille. "This book was submitted as a PhD thesis to Humboldt-Universit�at Berlin in 2008." (page IX). Includes bibliographical references. e-uk--- Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers 1592-1628 Art collections Stuart, House of Masques, English History and criticism Great Britain History James I, 1603-1625 Great Britain History Charles I, 1625-1649 Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century Great Britain Kings and rulers Portraits N8219.K5 H55 2012eb Hille, Christiane. Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2012] ix, 302 pages ; 24 cm. (OCoLC)ocn817948580 (DLC)17564825 9783050062556 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10848970 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10848970 CaPaEBR 121207 ebr10848970 eng