AUTUMN TERM
- Introduction to the course
- Contexts: Theory and practice
- The image of Elizabeth I: Gendering the queen
- The Elizabethan courtier: Loving the queen
- Entertaining the queen
- Dissing the queen and visual politics of early seventeeth-century Britain
- England's lost renaissance?
- Subverting monarchy?
- Class visit to the National Portrait Gallery
- Class visit to the V&A
SPRING TERM
- Inigo Jones
- Conspicuous consumption
- The theatre of monarchy: Power and performance
- The theatre of monarchy: Power as spectacle
- Van Dyck and the portrait as political metaphor
- Henrietta Maria: Art, piety and politics
- The politics of dress
- A royal collection and the sale of the century
- The world turned upside down: The visual politics of war and political change
- Visit to the British Museum Prints and Drawings Department