HART0088: Art and Visual Culture in Early Modern England - Indicative weekly topics

AUTUMN TERM

1. Introduction to the course
2. Contexts: Theory and practice
3. The image of Elizabeth I: Gendering the queen
4. The Elizabethan courtier: Loving the queen
5. Entertaining the queen
6. Dissing the queen and visual politics of early seventeeth-century Britain
7. England's lost renaissance?
8. Subverting monarchy?
9. Class visit to the National Portrait Gallery
10. Class visit to the V&A

SPRING TERM

1. Inigo Jones
2. Conspicuous consumption
3. The theatre of monarchy: Power and performance
4. The theatre of monarchy: Power as spectacle
5. Van Dyck and the portrait as political metaphor
6. Henrietta Maria: Art, piety and politics
7. The politics of dress
8. A royal collection and the sale of the century
9. The world turned upside down: The visual politics of war and political change
10. Visit to the British Museum Prints and Drawings Department