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just as much of a consciousness of being watched as does Titian’s Venus of Urbino or the romanticized images of the captive Rosamund Clifford. Henry’s wives portraits, however,
The country- house poem developed into a literary genre in the early decades of the seventeenth- century. Aemilia Lanyer's, `The description of Cooke- ham', and Ben Jonson's, `To Penshurst' namely represent the small genre which flourished so briefly. These poems are much more than domestic architecture and are more than simple exercises in praising and pleasing a wealthy patron and the readership at large. In country- house poetry, poets use the conjunction of the ideal family (the patron's) and
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masters of Renaissance art. Isabella became a powerful woman at a time when women were still mostly cut off from learning and art. She surpassed both her husband and her father in patronage of the arts as well as any other women on the playing field. Clifford Brown writes, “it is even more difficult to attempt to explain the factors that motivated these pursuits, for it was by no means a foregone conclusion that an individual of Isabella’s rank and station in life would have so singlemindly attempted
When one talks about the Renaissance, the most common topic is art and architecture. It is true that the Italian Renaissance was marked by some of the greatest and most prolific masters of painting, sculpture and building. It is also true that the era marked the emergence of a great deal more. It was a time of awakening from the intellectual darkness of the medieval order and the emergence of many of the concepts that would form the basis for civilization as it is known today. The era saw the