Luxury and Power
The Material World of the Stuart Diplomat, 1660-1714
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199693757
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 224x148x21 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 52 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
A study of the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the seventeenth century, illustrating the way in which architecture and the arts played an important role in diplomatic life. Luxury and Power is an important contribution to the cultural history of Baroque England.
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Luxury and Power examines the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the seventeenth century, and illustrates the way in which architecture and the arts played an important role in diplomatic life. It positions luxury consumption firmly in the political domain and demonstrates the significance of diplomats as cultural intermediaries, highlighting the importance of the material world to politicians and the role that diplomats played in the evolution of artistic appreciation in England.
Split into two parts, the first half covers the life of diplomats abroad: where they lived, what they took with them, and the style in which they lived when away from home. It investigates the ambassadorial household and the role of wives in embassy life, and positions women at the centre of the diplomatic world. Within the wider context of artistic patronage, not just fine art, Helen Jacobsen assesses their impact as conduits for the arts, examining their own collecting and the acquisitions they made for their friends and patrons back home.
Through case studies, part two examines how cultural politics drove the luxury consumption in which so many diplomats indulged. Such expenditure was not random, but was informed by diplomatic activity and was affected by the evolution in European diplomacy during these years. Importantly, it reveals that far from being the magpies satirised by eighteenth-century commentators, many of these patrons displayed a knowledge and understanding of many areas of artistic endeavour that made them indubitable connoisseurs of architecture, painting, furniture, textiles, silver, and coaches. Helen Jacobsen re-evaluates the reputation for artistic patronage of the later Stuart years and finds that the contribution by English diplomats has been sorely neglected.
Helen Jacobsen's book is an example of the kinds of insights that a more imaginative approach to the social and cultural history of diplomacy can provide ... A brief review can provide no more than a cursory synopsis of the wealth of information in Jacobsens book, which should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in the elite society and culture of the period it covers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Diplomats Overseas
Equipping the Royal Representative
Establishing the Embassy Abroad
Collecting and Connoisseurship
Procurement and Display
Part II: Strategies of Distinction
Patronage, Networks, and the Arts: The Earl of Arlington, 1618-1685
Informed Choices: Ralph Montagu, 1638-1709
Venetian Influences: The Earl of Manchester, 1662-1722
The Connoisseurial Advisor: Matthew Prior, 1664-1721
Ubiquitous display: The Earl of Strafford, 1672-1739
Conclusion
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