Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts

CONTENTS

Introduction: ‘The Invisible Lady styled the Magical Sister of the Rosicross’
STUART MAGIC AND THE FAIRY QUEEN

I ‘That triplicity which in great veneration was ascribed to ancient Hermes’
STUART COURT ART AND THE MAGIC OF KINGSHIP

II ‘By the might, And magic of his arm’
MASQUES, SERMONS, AND THE PROPHETIC
‘ALBION AND JERUSALEM’

III ‘A peece rather of good Heraldry, than of Architecture’
HERALDRY AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS AS JOINT EMBLEMS OF THE ‘HOUSE OF BRITISH CHIVALRY’

IV ‘A piece not of Nature, but of Arte’
GARDENS AND THE ILLUSION OF NATURAL MAGIC

V ‘Dee in his Mathematicall Preface…the West end of S.Pauls’
ARCHITECTURE AND THE GEOMETRY OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE

VI ‘The lofty tunes of the Diapenthes, Diatessarons, and Diapasons of our Royall Harpe’
MUSICAL HARMONY AND PYTHAGOREAN PALACES

VII ‘The body of the King…that glorious Sun’
PROCESSIONS AND STUART LONDON AS THE NEOPLATONIC ‘CITY OF THE SUN’

Epilogue ‘The heav’n of earth shall have no oddes’
APOCALYPTIC COURT ART AND ALBION’S SECOND RUIN

Appendix Inigo Jones or John Webb?
THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORSHIP OF STONE-HENG RESTORED (1655)

Notes
Bibliography
Index