Exchanging Royal Portraits Between France and England in the 1570s: The Politics of Scale
This article centres around Nicholas Hilliard and Sir Philip Sidney’s discussion of scale and proportion, as it is reported in The Arte of Limning. I argue that although the conversation has heretofore mainly been read as an echo of Sidney’s interest in Continental humanistic art theories, it may al...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_8058 https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.8058 urn:doi:10.4000/interfaces.8058 en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/8058 2024-01-16T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/vlty https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Exchanging Royal Portraits Between France and England in the 1570s: The Politics of Scale Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Dulac, Anne-Valérie portrait miniature Clouet (François) Clouet (Jean) Hilliard (Nicholas) Sidney (Philip) diplomatie portrait miniature Clouet (François) Clouet (Jean) Hilliard (Nicholas) Sidney (Philip) diplomacy This article centres around Nicholas Hilliard and Sir Philip Sidney’s discussion of scale and proportion, as it is reported in The Arte of Limning. I argue that although the conversation has heretofore mainly been read as an echo of Sidney’s interest in Continental humanistic art theories, it may also allude to previous diplomatic and political negotiations between France and England in which the two men were involved. Looking into diplomatic correspondence and various portraits by the Clouets and Nicholas Hilliard, one quickly realises how the expression of age and height was central to all forms and formats of political portraiture on both sides of the Channel, thereby making it even more crucial and possibly challenging for artists working on smaller scales. I thus turn to Hilliard’s description of his workshop procedure to see how he incorporated such issues of scale into his own practice. This finally leads me to analyse the importance of time in all measurements—as empirical as they may be—favoured by the limner and reassess the profoundly political issue of discerning a tall man from a little man on pictures in small volume. Cet article propose une relecture de la conversation entre Nicholas Hilliard et Sir Philip Sidney consacrée aux questions d’échelle et de proportion telle qu’elle est rapportée dans The Arte of Limning. Je montre que bien que cet échange ait jusqu’à présent surtout été lu comme la marque de l’intérêt de Sidney pour les théories artistiques humanistes développées sur le continent, il pourrait aussi faire écho à de précédentes négociations politiques et diplomatiques entre la France et l’Angleterre dans lesquelles les deux hommes furent impliqués. L’examen de la correspondance diplomatique et de divers portraits peints par les Clouet et Nicholas Hilliard nous permet de prendre la mesure de l’importance cruciale de l’expression de l’âge et de la taille dans le portrait politique sous toutes ses formes et dans tous ses formats, une tâche d’autant plus centrale et difficile, peut-être, pour les artistes spécialisées dans la peinture à échelle réduite. J’envisage ensuite la description que Hilliard fait de ses propres techniques afin de mieux comprendre comment il intégrait et transcrivait ces questions d’échelle dans son œuvre. Cela m’amène finalement à analyser l’importance du temps dans l’ensemble des mesures – aussi empiriques soient-elles – appliquées par le miniaturiste et à réaffirmer la nature éminemment politique du discernement entre statures lorsqu’elles sont représentées en petit volume. |
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This article centres around Nicholas Hilliard and Sir Philip Sidney’s discussion of scale and proportion, as it is reported in The Arte of Limning. I argue that although the conversation has heretofore mainly been read as an echo of Sidney’s interest in Continental humanistic art theories, it may also allude to previous diplomatic and political negotiations between France and England in which the two men were involved. Looking into diplomatic correspondence and various portraits by the Clouets and Nicholas Hilliard, one quickly realises how the expression of age and height was central to all forms and formats of political portraiture on both sides of the Channel, thereby making it even more crucial and possibly challenging for artists working on smaller scales. I thus turn to Hilliard’s description of his workshop procedure to see how he incorporated such issues of scale into his own practice. This finally leads me to analyse the importance of time in all measurements—as empirical as they may be—favoured by the limner and reassess the profoundly political issue of discerning a tall man from a little man on pictures in small volume. |
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Dulac, Anne-Valérie |
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Exchanging Royal Portraits Between France and England in the 1570s: The Politics of Scale |
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