Indicative Weekly Topics
1. Introduction & method
2. London
3. Face of the city
4. Fashioning identities
5. Visit to National Portrait Gallery
6. Maps “wherein all the worlde is paynted”
7. Elizabethan globalism? Objects on the move
8. Conflict & collecting
9. “True Report”? Virginia
10. Engraving knowledge
11. Shifting perspectives
12. Curiosity or commodity
13. Art, alchemy & health
14. Anatomy
15. Salomon’s House – the “goodly cabinet”
16. Connoisseurship & colonial ambition
17. Polemical prints
18. Observations
19. A History of Rainbows – the Royal Society
20. Sloane & collecting
Suggested Reading
HART0088: Art and Visual Culture in Early Modern England