Tudor Liveliness

Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England

Christina J Faraday

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
21 July 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Renaissance art; Portraits in art; British & Irish history

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art

In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture—from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could “liveliness” have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of idolatry, how could “liveliness” have been a good thing?

In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness: one grounded in rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for audiences. By drawing parallels with the dominant communicative framework of the day, Tudor Liveliness sheds new light on a lost mode of Tudor art criticism and appreciation, revealing how objects across a vast range of genres and contexts were taking part in the same intellectual and aesthetic conversations. By resurrecting a lost model for art theory, Faraday re-enlivens the vivid visual and material culture of Tudor and Jacobean England, recovering its original power to move, impress and delight.

Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

By: Christina J Faraday
Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781913107376
ISBN 10: 191310737X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christina Faraday is a research fellow in art history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker.

Reviews for Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England

“The achievement of this wonderfully illustrated and bountifully referenced book is to make us question how we should look at post-Reformation art, and to find delight in its eccentricities.”—Brett Dolman, History Today