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The purpose of this book is to consider the relationship between political power and the visual arts in Renaissance Britain. It is a commonplace that the adoption of an Italianate Renaissance style came late to Britain; adopted tardily and only in part, by artists and craftsmen.

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  1. John Summerson, Inigo Jones (Harmondsworth, 1983), pp. 17–18.

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  2. L. Pearsall-Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, 2 vols (Oxford, 1907), vol. 1, pp. 118–19n.

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  3. Roy Strong, Art and Power (Woodbridge, 1986), p. 15.

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  4. For an account of how historians have differed as to the causes of the Civil War, see John Kenyon, The History Men (London, 1983), passim.

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Howarth, D. (1997). Introduction. In: Images of Rule. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25481-1_1

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