Undergraduate Course: Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (HIAR10134)
Course Outline
School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | Holbein and Henry VIII; Van Dyck and Charles I; Kneller and William III. The visual arts played a crucial role in fashioning and promoting the royal public image. This course introduces students to key issues in the relationship between art and politics in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain. Through close study of royal portraiture, decorative schemes, printed ephemera, medals and court spectacle, it will explore how monarchs constructed images of authority, assessing the iconography, significance and impact of these efforts. Through individual presentations, group work, class discussion and site visits to, for example, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Holyrood House, students will consider important aspects of the fashioning process, including continuities and advances present in representations of each reign; relationships between royal patrons, artists and their public; and the diplomatic and propagandistic efficacy of the visual arts. |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 22 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Class Delivery Information |
1 x 2 hour seminar |
Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
173 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. By the end of the course, students will have:
1. A broad and integrated knowledge of Tudor and Stuart court culture.
2. 2. Familiarity with recent historiography on art and authority in early modern Britain.
3. 3. The ability to place individual artists within a clear chronology and to assess their impact upon developments in court culture.
4. 4. A thorough understanding of the primary visual and material sources through which monarchs fashioned their images.
5. 5. Developed skills of visual enquiry, analysis and communication through close study of selected images and the presentation of an individual paper on an assigned topic.
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Assessment Information
1 x 2 hour examination (50%) and 1 x 2000 word essay (50%) |
Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
Not entered |
Syllabus |
1: Introduction: Artistic Relationships: Patron, Artist and Audience
2: The Portraiture of Power: Holbein and Henry VIII
3: Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Religion and Art under Edward VI and Mary I
4: The Elizabethan Icon: Fashioning the Virgin Queen
5: Peace in our Time: Rubens, James VI and I, and the Art of Diplomacy
6: The Image of the King: Art at the Court of Charles I
7: Access and Display: The Spaces of Royal Power
8: Re-presenting Rule: Tradition and Innovation at the Restoration Court
9: Image Wars: Propaganda at the Rival Stuart Courts
10: Mothering the Nation: The Patronage of Queen Anne
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Transferable skills |
¿ Visual and critical analysis
¿ Independent research
¿ Presentation and communication skills
¿ Group work
¿ Organisation and planning
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Reading list |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Adamson, John (ed.) The Princely Courts of Europe (London, 1999).
Aston, Margaret, The King¿s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait (Cambridge, 1995).
Corp, Edward (ed.), A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France 1689-1718 (Cambridge, 2004).
Donovan, Fiona, Rubens and England (New Haven and London, 2004).
Hearn, Karen, Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630 (London, 1995).
Hearn, Karen (ed.), Van Dyck in Britain (London, 2009).
Holmes, Geoffrey, The Making of a Great Power: Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain (London, 1993).
Howarth, David, Images of Rule: Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1649 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1997).
Keay, Anna, The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power (New York and London, 2008).
Schwoerer, Lois G, ¿Images of Queen Mary II, 1689-95¿ in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter, 1989).
Sharpe, Kevin, Image Wars, Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England 1603-1660 (New Haven and London, 2010).
Sharpe, Kevin, Selling the Tudor Monarchy, Authority and Image in Sixteenth Century England (New Haven and London, 2009).
Smuts, R. Malcolm (ed.), The Stuart Court in Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture (Cambridge, 1996).
Strong, Roy. The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry (London, 1999).
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Study Abroad |
Not entered |
Study Pattern |
Classes will comprise ten two-hour seminars over the course of semester one.
Each week essential readings will be set and key images indicated for preparatory study.
Each student will present a short, illustrated paper relating to the seminar topics outlined above.
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Keywords | Early modern, politics, image, Tudor, Stuart, display, authority |
Contacts
Course organiser | Miss Catriona Murray
Tel:
Email: cmurray9@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
Email: Sue.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk |
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