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Author:   Vaughan Hart
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780415090315

ISBN 10:   0415090318
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   17 November 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction ‘The Invisible Lady styled the Magical Sister of the Rosicross’ STUART MAGIC AND THE FAIRY QUEEN, I ‘That triplicity which in great veneration was ascribed to ancient Hermes’ STUART COURT ART AND THE MAGIC OF KINGSHIP II ‘By the might, And magic of his arm’ MASQUES, SERMONS, AND THE PROPHETIC ‘ALBION AND JERUSALEM’ III ‘A peece rather of good Heraldry, than of Architecture’, HERALDRY AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS AS JOINT EMBLEMS OF THE ‘HOUSE OF BRITISH CHIVALRY’ IV ‘A piece not of Nature, but of Arte’ GARDENS AND THE ILLUSION OF NATURAL MAGIC V ‘Dee in his Mathematicall Preface…the West end of S.Pauls’ ARCHITECTURE AND THE GEOMETRY OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE VI ‘The lofty tunes of the Diapenthes, Diatessarons, and Diapasons of our Royall Harpe’ MUSICAL HARMONY AND PYTHAGOREAN PALACES VII ‘The body of the King…that glorious Sun’ PROCESSIONS AND STUART LONDON AS THE NEOPLATONIC ‘CITY OF THE SUN’ Epilogue- ‘The heav’n of earth shall have no oddes’, APOCALYPTIC COURT ART AND ALBION’S SECOND RUIN

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Much rare and unusual material is explored in this ambitious enquiry and...[the findings] are provocative and pleasing to the mind. Frances Yates would have approved of this book. - Early Modern Literary Studies This is art history that wil intrigue non-specialists and relate the visual arts to the philosophies and even fantasies of The Renaissance. - Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

Much rare and unusual material is explored in this ambitious enquiry and...[the findings] are provocative and pleasing to the mind. Frances Yates would have approved of this book. <br>- Early Modern Literary Studies <br> This is art history that wil intrigue non-specialists and relate the visual arts to the philosophies and even fantasies of The Renaissance. <br>- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance <br>

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