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Jacobean age |
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Jacobean agePeriod in the visual and literary arts during the reign of James I (Latin Jacobus) of England (r. 1603–25). Jacobean architecture combines motifs from the late Gothic period with Classical details and Tudor pointed arches and interior paneling. Jacobean furniture, made of oak, featured heavy forms and bulbous legs. Inigo Jones, following the theories and works of Andrea Palladio, introduced the Classical style of Renaissance architecture into England. Most Jacobean portraitists and sculptors were foreign-born or foreign-influenced, and their efforts faded when such Flemish painters as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck worked in England for James's successor, Charles I. See also Jacobean literature. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Starting with a general overview of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras and what political, spiritual and practical concerns made the British world turn for its citizens, he examines the plays themselves in the order that Shakespeare most likely wrote them. She reviews the work of period commentators on melancholy, finding that by the Jacobean era such symptoms were regarded by Burton and others as more mental than physical. Niece to Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, and daughter to Sir Robert Sidney of Penshurst, she consciously constructed herself as heir to the formidable Sidney literary legacy, taking over and revising their Elizabethan genres to the purposes of a female speaker and the cultural practices of the new Jacobean era. |
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