ART AND MAGIC in the COURT OF THE STUARTS

281 Pages·2002·4.19 MB·English

by  Vaughan Hart

ART AND MAGIC
IN THE
COURT OF THE STUARTS

ART AND MAGIC
in the
COURT OF THE STUARTS

Vaughan Hart

London and New York
First published 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

© 1994 Vaughan Hart

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To Jennifer

CONTENTS

Illustrations
ix
Preface
xiii
Introduction
‘The Invisible Lady styled the Magical Sister of the Rosicross’
STUART MAGIC AND THE FAIRY QUEEN
1
I
‘That triplicity which in great veneration was ascribed to ancient Hermes’
STUART COURT ART AND THE MAGIC OF KINGSHIP
12
II
‘By the might, And magic of his arm’
MASQUES, SERMONS, AND THE PROPHETIC
‘ALBION AND JERUSALEM’
30
III
‘A peece rather of good Heraldry, than of Architecture’
HERALDRY AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS AS JOINT
EMBLEMS OF THE ‘HOUSE OF BRITISH CHIVALRY’
60
IV
‘A piece not of Nature, but of Arte’
GARDENS AND THE ILLUSION OF NATURAL MAGIC
84
V
‘Dee in his Mathematicall Preface…the West end of S.Pauls’
ARCHITECTURE AND THE GEOMETRY OF
SOLOMON’S TEMPLE
105
VI
‘The lofty tunes of the Diapenthes, Diatessarons, and Diapasons of our Royall Harpe’
MUSICAL HARMONY AND PYTHAGOREAN PALACES
136
VII
‘The body of the King…that glorious Sun’
PROCESSIONS AND STUART LONDON AS THE
NEOPLATONIC ‘CITY OF THE SUN’
155
Epilogue
‘The heav’n of earth shall have no oddes’
APOCALYPTIC COURT ART AND ALBION’S SECOND RUIN
189
Appendix
Inigo Jones or John Webb?
THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORSHIP OF STONE-HENG
RESTORED (1655)
201
Notes
206
Bibliography
244
Index
256
ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure 1 Rubens’s ceiling panels to Jones’s Whitehall Banqueting House.
Interior of the Banqueting House.
Figure 2 Jones’s sketch of Hercules, Daedalus, and Mercury-Hermes, from
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (1618) (Chatsworth).
Figure 3 Charles I and Henrietta Maria as Apollo and Diana, Gerard van
Honthorst (1628) (Hampton Court).
Figure 4 Mercury-Hermes and St Paul’s Cathedral. Detail from Hollar’s
‘long view’ of London (1647) (Cambridge University Library).
Figure 5 ‘The Fallen House of British Chivalry’ designed by Inigo Jones
for Prince Henry’s Barriers (1610) (Chatsworth).
Figure 6 ‘St George’s Portico’, Jones’s subsequent scene from Prince Henry’s
Barriers (Chatsworth).
Figure 7 Jones’s characterisation of Merlin from Prince Henry’s Barriers
(1610) (Chatsworth). Jones’s drawing of a knight masquer with
shield, dressed a l’antique from unassigned Barrier celebration
(Chatsworth).
Figure 8 Charles I and the Knights of the Garter in Procession, by Van
Dyck. Detail showing Charles I (The Duke of Rutland collection).
Figure 9 Inigo Jones’s scene design with his newly refaced St Paul’s as the
focus from Britannia Triumphans (1638) (Chatsworth).
Figure 10 Stonehenge according to Inigo Jones. Woodcut plan of the whole
layout of Stonehenge, view of stones and generalised Romano-
British temple from Jones’s STONE-HENG Restored, London (1655
edn) (Cambridge University Library).
Figure 11 Engraving of Elizabeth I, by Crispin de Passe Senior (1596),
presenting a combined image of heraldic and architectural Order.
Published by Jan Woudneel in London (Cambridge University
Library).
Figure 12 Mark of the printer John Daye from Foxe’s Acts and Monuments,
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