City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Treasures of the royal courts, Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars, edited by Olga Dmitrieva and Tessa Murdoch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index

Treasures of the royal courts

edited by Olga Dmitrieva and Tessa Murdoch

Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars

HISTORY OF ART & DESIGN STYLES: C 1600 TO C 1800. This beautiful book explores the diplomatic, trade and cultural exchanges between the courts of Britain and Russia, from the reign of Henry VIII to the death of Charles II. Through the material life of the courts, the gifts of the diplomats and the commissions of the monarchs, the book presents an overview of privileged living in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - illustrating the material life of the leading personalities of the period. Engaging and authoritative, Treasures of the Royal Courts uses superb new photography to illustrate chapters on diplomacy, silver, portraits, miniatures, arms and armour, heraldry, textiles and jewellery by experts from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Kremlin Museum, Moscow

From Whitehall to the Kremlin : the diplomacy and political culture of the English and Russian courts / Olga Dmitrieva -- Merchant-class portraiture in Tudor London : 'Customer' Smith's commission, 1579/80 / Karen Hearn -- English limning : the portrait miniature in Tudor and early Stuart England / Katherine Coombs -- 'Armes and bestes' : Tudor and Stuart heraldry / Maurice Howard and Tessa Murdoch -- Sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English silver in the Kremlin / Natalia Abramova -- Arms and armour / Angus Patterson -- 'Silks, velvets, cloths of gold and other such precious raiments' : clothing and furnishing in Tudor and Stuart courts / Clare Browne -- 'O, those jewels! The pride and glory of this kingdom!' / Richard Edgcumbe -- The Moscow coach : 'a rich chariot, one parcell of the great present' / Julian Munby

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