The Ultimate Book of Royal
Author: DeLong, Douglas
Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle eBook
Number Of Pages: 393
Release Date: 18-09-2019
Details:
HUNDREDS OF DAZZLING ROYAL PORTRAITS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!
This 3-volume series of royal portraits includes 560 digitally enhanced portraits of (mostly) European royalty from the 15th century through the 19th century. The portraits have been grouped according to the royal house to which the subjects belonged. In some cases, subjects from affiliated houses have been included within the main house. Each portrait includes some basic biographical information, presented on the page immediately preceding the portrait. Keep in mind that this is primarily an art book, not a history book. All the portraits have been selected based solely on their artistic merit. It will be left to others to provide a comprehensive history of the royals.
Royal portraiture has been around for centuries and has always been one of the perks of being rich and famous. The lowly peasants of the world were certainly not able to afford to have a world-renowned painter create a lavish portrait that presented them in their very best light.
It was the ancient Egyptians who first began to create portraits as a stylized profile. That sort of portraiture continued through the Greek and Roman periods. Around the 1500s, however, that begins to change. The subject of the portrait begins to turn to face the viewer. We see more of the person’s face and body as well as surrounding objects, and as you’ll see from the portraits in this book, we see what they are wearing - the lavish, extravagant and gorgeous clothes and costumes that let the viewer know that this is a very special and very important person. But most importantly, perhaps, is the way that their eyes meet those of the viewer. It is their eyes that really draw you into the portrait and allow you to make a connection with a person from a time and place far removed from your 21st-century life.
It was the Stuart royal family (1603-1714) who first began to understand the importance of the royal portrait as a way
Languages: English
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