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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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John Summerson, Inigo Jones (Harmondsworth, 1983), pp. 17–18.
L. Pearsall-Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, 2 vols (Oxford, 1907), vol. 1, pp. 118–19n.
Roy Strong, Art and Power (Woodbridge, 1986), p. 15.
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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