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In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed 'lively'. This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture - from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could 'liveliness' have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of idolatry, how could 'liveliness' have been a good thing? In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness: one grounded in rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for audiences. By drawing parallels with the dominant communicative framework of the day, Tudor Liveliness sheds new light on a lost mode of Tudor art criticism and appreciation, revealing how objects across a vast range of genres and contexts were taking part in the same intellectual and aesthetic conversations. By resurrecting a lost model for art theory, Faraday re-enlivens the vivid visual and material culture of Tudor and Jacobean England, recovering its original power to move, impress and delight.

Art --- Jacobean [culture or period] --- Tudor --- Tudor [Dynasty] --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Art, Tudor. --- Art, English --- Realism in art. --- Material culture --- Art Tudor. --- Art anglais --- Réalisme (Art) --- Culture matérielle --- Tudor. --- realism (artistic form of expression) --- Art, Tudor --- Realism in art --- History. --- Histoire. --- 1500-1699