Lively Limning: Presence in Portrait Miniatures and John White’s Images of the New World
Nicholas Hilliard’s portrait miniatures are often regarded as unrealistic, artificial, and highly stylised fabrications, yet contemporary accounts frequently described them as “lively”. This complex word points towards a period conception of vividness, one that—in the case of limning—is intimately t...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2020-09-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
| Online Access: | http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-17/lively-limning |