Art And Architecture Of The Early Stuarts, 1603 - 1660 - Book List

A Good Place To Start

Summerson, J. Inigo Jones
London: Penguin, 1966
(This Is A Short And Excellent Introduction To The Work Of Jones. It Is Available In Many Subsequent Editions.)

Strong, R. The Stuart Image: English Portraiture 1603 to 1649
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2023

Background Reading

Adamson, J. (Ed.) The Princely Courts of Europe 1500 - 1750
London: Seven Dials, 2000

Bird, R. (Ed.) Charles II: Art and Power
London: Royal Collection Trust, 2017

Cooper, T. A Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2008

Griffey, E. On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015

Haldane, A. Portraits of the English Civil Wars
London: Unicorn, 2017

Harris, A. S. Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture - 2nd Edition
London: Pearson, 2007

Howard, M. The Tudor Image
London: Tate Gallery, 1995

Keay, A. The Crown Jewels: The Official Illustrated History
London: Thames & Hudson, 2012

Kelsey, S. Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649 - 1653
Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1997

Knoppers, L. L. Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portraiture and Print, 1645 - 1661
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Leapman, M. Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance
London: Review, 2003

Macleod, C. (Editor) Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2001

Mowl, T. and Earnshaw, B. Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism Under Cromwell
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995

Parry, G. Glory, Laud and Honour: The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006

Roberts, J. The King's Head: Charles I - King and Martyr
London: Royal Collection, 1999

Rumberg, P. (Ed.) Charles I: King and Collector
London: Royal Academy Of Arts, 2018

Sherwood, R. Oliver Cromwell: King In All But Name 1653 - 1658
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997

Strong, R. Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
London: Pimlico, 2003

Strong, R. The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture 1558 - 1603
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019

Tavernor, R. Palladio and Palladianism
London: Thames And Hudson, 1991

Thurley, S. Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Whinney, M. English Art 1625 - 1714
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957

Websites

Royal Collection

National Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

The Queen's House, Greenwich

The Banqueting House, Whitehall

Andrew Lacey
June 2024

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