The Colour of Lustre: Limning by the Life

The present article explores the polysemy of “lustre” in two treatises on limning by Nicholas Hilliard and Edward Norgate. It first lists all uses of the word in these texts in order to offer historically specific definitions of “lustre” in both the practice and theory developed by these specialists...

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Main Author: Anne-Valérie DULAC
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2015-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/4402