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Stuart Image
English Portraiture 1603 to 1649
Av Roy Strong
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
377 kr
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Based on a lifetime's work in the field, Sir Roy Strong offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists.Sir Roy Strong has been writing for over half a century on the painters of the courts of James I and Charles I. While …
Coronation
A History of the British Monarchy
Av Roy Strong
Inbunden, 2022
310 kr
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The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. ’What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.What do people talk most about? A Coronation.What is delightful to have passed? A Coronation.’Horace Walpole, 1761 As a boy of sixteen, Roy Strong …
Coronation
A History of the British Monarchy
Av Roy Strong
E-bok, 2022
142 kr
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The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. ’What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.What do people talk most about? A Coronation.What is delightful to have passed? A Coronation.’Horace Walpole, 1761 As a boy of sixteen, Roy Strong …
Elizabethan Image
An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558–1603
Av Roy Strong
Häftad, 2021
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355 kr
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The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraitureWritten for the general reader, Roy Strong’s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture synthesizes scholarship and research on this subject into a concise introduction to the Elizabethan aesthetic. Strong …
Bryan Organ
Picturing People
Av Tristram Hunt, Charlotte Mullins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
456 kr
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Published to mark the artist's 90th birthday, this is the first and only book to provide an overview of Bryan Organ, one of the world's great portrait painters. This book tells the story of Bryan Organ, whose works have been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery more than any other …
Quest for Shakespeare’s Garden
Av Roy Strong
Inbunden, 2016
175 kr
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Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from sources including Elizabethan gardening books, embroidered fabrics and hand-coloured …
Art and Power
Renaissance Festivals 1450-1650
Av Roy Strong
Häftad, 1986
382 kr
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A work of great learning and skilful synthesis, beautifully illustrated. SUNDAY TIMESThe spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance were both a marriage of the arts and a complex and subtle expression of political theory. From the Renaissance festivals ballet, opera and even …
Visions of England
Or Why We Still Dream of a Place in the Country
Av Roy Strong
E-bok, 2012
108 kr
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Why do we still get misty-eyed about England's green and pleasant land?What explains our obsession with country houses - from the National Trust to Downton Abbey?Why do we still dream of a place in the country?In this delightul book Roy Strong explores the definition of Englishness. Celebrating our …
Little History Of The English Country Church
Av Roy Strong
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish churchFrom the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism; …
Story of Britain
From the Romans to the Present
Av Roy Strong
Häftad, 2019
196 kr
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'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has written an exemplary introduction to the history of Britain, as first designated by the Romans. It is a …
Story of Britain
From the Romans to the Present
Av Roy Strong
E-bok, 2018
45 kr
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''A triumph'' INDEPENDENT ''A thought-provoking and indispensable book'' DAILY MAIL ''An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight'' EVENING STANDARD Roy Strong has written an exemplary introduction to the history of Britain, as first designated by the Romans. …
Roy Strong
Self-Portrait as a Young Man
Av Roy Strong
Inbunden, 2013
379 kr
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For nearly half a century, Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed a high public profile in the arts world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties when he burst upon the scene as the revolutionary trendy young director of the National Portrait Gallery, aged …
Somewhere in England
E-bok, 2019
75 kr
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“At any rate,” ended Philippa-Dawn, staring up at the garland of silver monsters gently swaying above them in the evening sky, “at any rate, it’ll be a change of Balloons.” Carola Oman’s irresistible sequel to Nothing to Report begins with young, perky Philippa-Dawn Johnson, preparing to launch her …
