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The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England - Clarendon Paperbacks Wendorf, Richard (Librarian, Houghton Library, Librarian, Houghton Library, Harvard University)
The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England - Clarendon Paperbacks
Wendorf, Richard (Librarian, Houghton Library, Librarian, Houghton Library, Harvard University)
This ambitious study focuses on the great age of English portraiture, from the the arrival of Van Dyck (1632) to the publication of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), in order to establish the grounds of comparison between biography and portrait-painting - two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost entirely unexplored.
330 pages, colour frontispiece, 38 pp black and white plates
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 23, 1992 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198119791 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 330 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 233 × 22 mm · 581 g |
| Language | English |