Stuart History (1603-1714)

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Antonio Verrio (c1636-1707) and the Royal Image at Hampton Court
(2009)
Dolman, Brett
Antonio Verrio worked at Hampton Court Palace for William III and Queen Anne between 1700 and 1705. This was his last major commission before his death in 1707 and has been dismissed as an inferior programme of decoration, not worthy of much investigation. Edward Croft-Murray's survey work for his Decorative Painting in England did not give much space or consideration to this phase of Verrio's career, and the only academic article on any of the Hampton Court paintings appeared as long ago as 1940. The special edition of Apollo Magazine published in 1994 to celebrate the re-opening of the King's Apartments after the 1986 fire contained chapters on every aspect of William III's decorative scheme except Verrio's murals.
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Renewing and refashioning: recycling furniture at the late Stuart court (1689-1714)
(2015-07-01)
Fryman, Olivia
The prime economic function of recycling in the eighteenth century will be our first subject of analysis, paying particular attention to the secondhand market and the development of the paper industry. Recycling in this instance will be shown to be both at the centre of an age-old economy of survival and of the burgeoning industrialisation of the country. Pawning, like second-hand sale, was central to the economy and the survival strategies of many, offering people a quick means to get ready money when strapped for cash. The second main economic circuit of used clothing was the trade in scraps and rags. The salvaging and the professional transformation of textile scraps and rags offered networks of recycling that were integral to the eighteenth-century economy and its nascent industry. The trade in second-hand clothing and rag collecting operated differently but both were central to the economic developments witnessed by the country in the eighteenth century.
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The Story of Kensington Palace
(2019-04-09)
Borman, Tracy
Today Kensington Palace is synonymous with young royals: it is the official home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their family, and of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It is also famous for being the residence of Diana, Princess of Wales, during the last years of her life. But the history of Kensington stretches back much further. It boasts more than three centuries of continuous royal occupation, making it unique among the Historic Royal Palaces. Formerly a private house enlarged by Christopher Wren in the late 17th century to suit the needs of William and Mary, Kensington Palace was the favoured home of five sovereigns until the death of George II in 1760. The palace's unprepossessing appearance belies its architectural significance, for it was shaped and decorated by some of the country’s leading architects, artists and craftsmen, and is now a major national monument. Kensington’s social and political significance is arguably even greater. It has played host to some of the most important personalities and events in the long history of the royal family. It was, for example, the birthplace and childhood home of Queen Victoria. From the late 19th century onwards, Kensington became a visitor attraction, a museum and home to the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. The palace now attracts more than 600,000 visitors a year. In this new illustrated account, Tracy Borman tells the fascinating story of Kensington from private residence to modern-day royal palace, describing not only the development of the building and its magnificent gardens, but also the dramas and intrigues of court life. Its history is set against a backdrop of events that shaped Britain and its monarchy: from the Jacobite uprisings of the mid-18th century to the rise of industrialization in the 19th, and the turbulence of world war in the 20th. Here, in the domestic surrounds of the palace, the monarchy evolved in tandem with the times. The story of Kensington Palace is, in short, the story of the modern monarchy.
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The King's Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace
(2095-07-31)
Thurley, Simon
The gardens created by William and Mary at Hampton Court Palace between 1689 and 1702 still contain more fabric from the Baroque period than any other gardens in the British Isles. For this reason alone a restoration of any part of the estate is of great interest and importance to historians and garden-lovers all over the world. But the restoration of the king's private or 'privy' garden, perhaps the most important of those at Hampton Court, undertaken by the Historic Royal Palaces Agency between May 1991 and July 1995, has a special significance. Never has a garden of this historic or artistic importance survived so well recorded, and so never before has a garden restoration been undertaken with such faithfulness to the historical record. The restoration of the Privy Garden is a milestone in garden restoration and garden history as the full armoury of modern research techniques have turned to focus on one uniquely preserved and documented site. This volume records not only the way the restoration was undertaken but also the results of four years of archival, horticultural and archaeological research into the garden. Yet despite modern archival and scientific techniques, all restorations have their limitations and these are also recorded both for the information of those who come after us at Hampton Court and for others undertaking garden restorations elsewhere.
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Schimmel en wormen
(2023-01-01)
Fitch, Richard
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van Raamsdonk, Esther
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Rolfe, Kirsty
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Willie, Rachel
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Levelt, Sjoerd
Cheese and the Netherlands are often mentioned in the same breath. Moreover, cheese and the Netherlands are associated with a nostalgic idealization of the countryside. This book seeks the reality behind the myth of 'cheese as typical for the Netherlands'. The result shows a colourful palette in which cheese and everything that has to do with cheese is placed on the study table. The authors take you to cowsheds and ultra-right-wing social media, to cheese letters, early modern diplomacy and emigration literature, to cow breeds, cow language, Texel green cheese and eighteenth-century poetry about the profits from fat dairy cows, to art about cheese and the pronunciation of cheese, to the (consonants) that a cow pronounces, to racial theories about white milk ... A history of cheese making, of all the words for cheese that Dutch has known and an analysis of the cow in Dutch agricultural policy cannot be missed. How does cheese make Netherlands? Leonie Cornips, Marieke Hendriksen and Geertje Mak gathered a group of authors, each of whom sought out the answer to this question from their own discipline such as ethnography, agrarian history and human-animal studies, linguistics, gender studies, colonial history, modern art, literary and religious studies, etc.
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The Exotic Garden: The Restoration of the William and Mary's Lower Orangery Garden
(2002)
Gough, Terry
In the late 17th century, one of the finest botanical collections in the world was held by William III and Mary II in their gardens at Hampton Court Palace. This collection was a precursor to that at Kew, founded some 70 years later. A current restoration project at the Lower Orangery Garden at Hampton Court is returning the gardens, the glass houses and the plants contained within them to the display schemes first introduced some 300 years ago.
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The Stuart Kings, Oliver Cromwell and the Chapel Royal 1618-1685
(2002)
Thurley, Simon
Historians of the English court have become increasingly interested in the relationship between court ceremonial and the liturgy of the Chapel Royal. The Chapel Royal (which is capitalized in this article - as opposed to individual chapel buildings which are not) was the department of the royal household that attended to its spiritual needs. It is now accepted that the etiquette of the Tudor and Stuart court owed a great deal to the monarch's public attendance at chapel, and its yearly pattern was heavily influenced by the church year. This recognition places the royal chapels in a central position in the choreography of the court. It also allows historians to view these important buildings in a new light as one of the most important ceremonial spaces in the royal houses, rather than merely an adjunct to the great outer rooms, the presence chamber and privy chamber.
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Queenship and the Currency of Arts Patronage as Propaganda at the Early Stuart Court
(2018-05-22)
Hitchmough, Wendy
Hitchmough explores the built heritage of royal palaces as emotional and intellectual gateways to the narratives that help us understand the present through an analysis of the past. From the contemporary installation of Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London to Inigo Jones’s designs for the Banqueting House at Whitehall, this chapter examines the ways in which contemporary design can allude to complex political and historical loyalties. It focuses on interactions between queenship and visual culture and the agency that Queen Anna of Denmark exercised through her patronage of Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson. Hitchmough considers the Banqueting House as visual propaganda, relating its Neo-Palladian design to the Queen’s masque performances and, ultimately, to the staging of Charles I’s execution.
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Fashioning and furnishing for performance: the rise and fall of the State Bedchamber in the English Royal Palace'
(2016-06-20)
Edwards, Sebastian
The late 17th and early 18th centuries saw profound changes in Britain and in its visual arts. This volume provides fresh perspectives on the art of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods, focusing on the concepts, spaces, and audiences of court, country, and city as reflected in an array of objects, materials, and places. The essays discuss the revolutionary political and economic circumstances of the period, which not only forged a new nation-state but also provided a structural setting for artistic production and reception. Contributions from nineteen authors and the three editors cover such diverse topics as tapestry in the age of Charles II and painting in the court of Queen Anne; male friendship portraits; mezzotint and the exchange between painting and print; the interpretation of genres such as still life and marine painting; the concept of remembered places; courtly fashion and furnishing; the codification of rules for painting; and the development of aesthetic theory.
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Queen Mary’s Porcelain at Kensington Palace
(2017-01-16)
Prosser, Lee
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