TY - BOOK ID - 77888148 TI - Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts AU - Hart, Vaughan AU - Hart V Staff PY - 1994 SN - 1280325437 9780203305965 9786610325436 0203305965 1134876793 0203200780 9780203200780 9780415090315 0415090318 9781134876792 9781280325434 661032543X 0415090318 9781134876747 1134876742 9781134876785 1134876785 9780415756167 0415756162 9780203305966 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Art, Stuart. KW - Allegories. KW - Magic KW - Neoplatonism. KW - Alexandrian school KW - Church history KW - Hellenism KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Platonists KW - Theosophy KW - Magick KW - Necromancy KW - Sorcery KW - Spells KW - Occultism KW - Allegory (Art) KW - Exempla KW - Fiction KW - Homiletical illustrations KW - Tales KW - Fables KW - Parables KW - Stuart art KW - Influence. KW - Stuart, House of KW - Art patronage. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888148 AB - Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture ER -