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Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015008289129
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243705697
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1331080800
Excerpt from The Romance of George Villiers First Duke of Buckingham, and Some Men and Women, of the Stuart Court I Suppose that among those who daily pass Villiers Street and Buckingham Street in the Strand, or stop to glance at the grey stone-work in the Embankment Gardens, which was once the river gate to York House, scarcely one in a thousand gives a thought to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, whose ghost - if ghosts walk - must surely haunt these streets and this site of old-time splendour. But to those who read history the memory of Buckingham is curiously haunting. The tradition of a personal beauty dazzling to the eyes of his contemporaries still lingers in old letters and old memoirs, and this beauty of the man which was the origin of his astonishing fortune, still has some power, in mere remembrance, to move hearts in his favour, though reason may condemn him. Yet he had many shining qualities beyond his handsome face. In two Courts, where there were many men of splendid presence and high intellect, George Villiers, whose intellect was not so trained and subtle, bore them down by a daring magnificence, and careless arrogance, and brilliant charm of manners. The favours that were lavished on him by two kings he took lightly, and being raised from quite a humble estate (though a gentleman by birth) held his place easily as Lord Paramount over many great noblemen whose rank was theirs by inheritance. He had few friends beyond his Royal masters - though many flatterers - after he had attained the pinnacle of his prodigious fortune, and many hated him with a deadly and dangerous hatred. Yet he was perfectly careless of their enmity, and defied them with a laughing grace or with imperturbable insolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Philip 1877-1962 Gibbs
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1363888226
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Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294683608
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Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PSU:000059706601
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024638194
Author : Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013698071
Author : William Hudson Shaw
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290101027
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Author : Christiane Hille
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783050062556
In 1603, the beginning of the Stuart reign, painting was of minor importance at the English court, where the elaborately designed masques of Inigo Jones served as the prime medium of royal representation. Only two decades later, their most celebrated performer, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham had assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of painting in early seventeenth-century Europe. His career as the personal and political favourite of two succeeding monarchs – James I and Charles I – coincides with the commission of a number of highly ambitious portraits from the hands of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck that displayed his body in spectacular manner. As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham’s patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship.
Author : Hugh Ross Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Favorites, Royal
ISBN : UVA:X001025336
Author : George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1770
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076081417
Author : George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199203642
George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, was one of the most controversial figures of the late 17th century. He was the principal author of 'The Rehearsal' (1671), a burlesque play. This edition addresses the difficulties in both attribution and annotation that almost all of his works present.
Author : Katherine Thomson
Publisher : HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite of King James I of England. Despite a patchy political and military record, Buckingham remained at the height of royal favour for the first three years of the reign of King Charles I, until a disgruntled army-officer assassinated him.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11451786
