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Van Dyckâs Genoese Nobles
Two Portraits in Context
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The aristocratic portraits painted by Van Dyck in the Republic of Genoa during the 1620s have become famous as definitively charismatic images of a ruling elite, the Genoese nobility being constitutionally defined as the governing class of the state. From the earliest written accounts of them a generic, collective appeal has been ascribed to these prepotently glamorous images, glossing over the specific meanings which any individual image might express. This study of two principal portraits uses their contrasting significances to expound the tension between established and shifting ideas of nobility which informed the thinking and behaviour of the Genoese patriciate, and of which Van Dyck shows perceptive awareness.
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John Peacock BLitt (Oxford) was Reader in English at Southampton University where he is now Fellow Emeritus. He is the author of The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones. The European Context (Cambridge, 1995) and most recently of Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck (Routledge, 2021).
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
1 Introduction
2 Nobility in Genoa
â1âMaritime Enterprise and Metropolitan Government
â2âNobility and Commerce: Practice and Theory
â3âFinance and Feudal Lordship
â4âPicturing Genoese Nobility
3 Expounding Elena Grimaldi
â1âA Regal Nobility
â2âPalace and Villa: Civility and Nature
â3âThe Reciprocal Gaze: Theatre and Scene
â4âThe Palatial Scrutiny
â5âThe Look of the Villa
â6âLiberty and Loftiness
â7âThe Nature of Nobility
4 The Prospect of Anton Giulio Brignole Sale
â1âThe House of Brignole: Its Rise and Its Future
â2âTowards a Palazzo Brignole Sale?
â3âThe Feudal Landscape
â4âSpanish Dominance: between Culture and Politics
â5âFormality and Informality
â6âNobility, Lineage and savoir vivre
â7âPicturing Lineage: Past, Present, Future
â8âThe Noble Man of Letters
â9âA Newer Kind of Nobility
5 New Identities: the Patrician between Courtier and Prince
â1âNobility and the Courtier
â2âCastiglione âGenoveseâ?
â3âThe Evolution of sprezzatura
â4âMutations of sprezzatura
â5âCourtiers, Princely Rulers and the Republic of Genoa
â6âCourtiers and Nobles
â7âSprezzatura for Academicians
â8âThe sprezzatura of the Cavalier
â9âChivalry, Culture and Politics
â10âThe Idea of a Princely Oligarch
6 Afterword: Noble Potraiture as âHistoryâ
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
1 Introduction
2 Nobility in Genoa
â1âMaritime Enterprise and Metropolitan Government
â2âNobility and Commerce: Practice and Theory
â3âFinance and Feudal Lordship
â4âPicturing Genoese Nobility
3 Expounding Elena Grimaldi
â1âA Regal Nobility
â2âPalace and Villa: Civility and Nature
â3âThe Reciprocal Gaze: Theatre and Scene
â4âThe Palatial Scrutiny
â5âThe Look of the Villa
â6âLiberty and Loftiness
â7âThe Nature of Nobility
4 The Prospect of Anton Giulio Brignole Sale
â1âThe House of Brignole: Its Rise and Its Future
â2âTowards a Palazzo Brignole Sale?
â3âThe Feudal Landscape
â4âSpanish Dominance: between Culture and Politics
â5âFormality and Informality
â6âNobility, Lineage and savoir vivre
â7âPicturing Lineage: Past, Present, Future
â8âThe Noble Man of Letters
â9âA Newer Kind of Nobility
5 New Identities: the Patrician between Courtier and Prince
â1âNobility and the Courtier
â2âCastiglione âGenoveseâ?
â3âThe Evolution of sprezzatura
â4âMutations of sprezzatura
â5âCourtiers, Princely Rulers and the Republic of Genoa
â6âCourtiers and Nobles
â7âSprezzatura for Academicians
â8âThe sprezzatura of the Cavalier
â9âChivalry, Culture and Politics
â10âThe Idea of a Princely Oligarch
6 Afterword: Noble Potraiture as âHistoryâ
Bibliography
Index
Relevant to students, postgraduates and scholars working in art history and cultural history of the early modern period, and to libraries serving these fields of study. Keywords: Van Dyck, Elena Grimaldi, Brignole Sale, Paolina Adorno, Rubens, Genoese Republic, Andrea Doria, Tasso, Castiglione, Andrea Spinola, Ansaldo Cebà , Raffaele Soprani, Embriaco, Bellori, Agucchi, John Evelyn, Ambrogio Spinola, Decameron, Strada Nuova, Addormentati, villa, liberty, patrician, doge, academy, history painting, oligarchic republic, sprezzatura, affabilità , portraiture.