“it seemeth to be the thing itsefe”: Directness and Intimacy in Nicholas Hilliard’s Portrait Miniatures
In recent scholarship, the portrait miniature has been seen as a symptom of privacy in Elizabethan culture. Nicholas Hilliard’s miniatures in particular are seen as promising to reveal the “Elizabethan self” while simultaneously concealing it behind layers of rooms, cases and intricate painted ornam...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/5292 |