Treasures of the royal courts : Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars / edited by Olga Dmitrieva and Tessa Murdoch.
Alternate Title(s):
Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars
Published / Created:
London : V&A Publishing ; 2013.New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2013.
Physical Description:
176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Contents:
From Whitehall to the Kremlin : the diplomacy and political culture of the English and Russian courts / Olga Dmitrieva -- Merchant-class portraiture in Tudor London : 'Customer' Smith's commission, 1579/80 / Karen Hearn -- English limning : the portrait miniature in Tudor and early Stuart England / Katherine Coombs -- 'Armes and bestes' : Tudor and Stuart heraldry / Maurice Howard and Tessa Murdoch -- Sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English silver in the Kremlin / Natalia Abramova -- Arms and armour / Angus Patterson -- 'Silks, velvets, cloths of gold and other such precious raiments' : clothing and furnishing in Tudor and Stuart courts / Clare Browne -- 'O, those jewels! The pride and glory of this kingdom!' / Richard Edgcumbe -- The Moscow coach : 'a rich chariot, one parcell of the great present' / Julian Munby
Subject Terms:
Tudor, House of -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions. | Stuart, House of -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions. | Art, British -- 16th century -- Exhibitions. | Art, British -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. | Art, Russian -- 16th century -- Exhibitions. | Art, Russian -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. | Diplomatic gifts -- England -- Exhibitions. | Diplomatic gifts -- Russia -- Exhibitions. | Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485–1603 -- Exhibitions. | Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603–1714 -- Exhibitions. | Russia -- History -- 16th century -- Exhibitions. | Russia -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. | Great Britain -- Relations -- Russia -- Exhibitions. | Russia -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Dmitrieva, Olʹga. | Murdoch, T. V. (Tessa Violet) | Victoria and Albert Museum.