Van Dyck's Genoese Nobles: Two Portraits in Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004510869)

Vendor: John Peacock
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Format: Hardcover
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Van Dyck's Genoese Nobles: Two Portraits in Context

$136.00

Van Dyck's Genoese Nobles: Two Portraits in Context

$136.00
Format: Hardcover
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The aristocratic portraits painted by Van Dyck in the Republic of Genoa during the 1620s have become famous as definitively charismatic images of a ruling elite, the Genoese nobility being constitutionally defined as the governing class of the state. From the earliest written accounts of them a generic, collective appeal has been ascribed to these prepotently glamorous images, glossing over the specific meanings which any individual image might express. This study of two principal portraits uses their contrasting significances to expound the tension between established and shifting ideas of nobility which informed the thinking and behaviour of the Genoese patriciate, and of which Van Dyck shows perceptive awareness.

Author: John Peacock
ISBN-10: 9004510869
ISBN-13: 9789004510869
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2026
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
By John Peacock
By John Peacock
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John Peacock BLitt (Oxford) was Reader in English at Southampton University where he is now Fellow Emeritus. He is the author of The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones. The European Context (Cambridge, 1995) and most recently of Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck (Routledge, 2021).

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