Levina Teerlinc, Mary I’s Legal Limner?
We are delighted to welcome Kathleen Kennedy, British Academy Global Professor, University of Bristol, for her online guest lecture on Tudor limner Levina Teerlinc.
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Please join us for Kathleen Kennedy's online lecture at 15.00 on 09.04 by registering (the registration link is to the right) to receive a Zoom link (the link will be sent shortly before the lecture).
Levina Teerlinc, Mary I’s Legal Limner?
Though we rarely think of them that way, legal documents of all kinds, from currency to passports, are covered in art. We’re so accustomed to ignoring documentary design, in fact, that even though we examine Renaissance art extremely closely, we fail to consider documents decorated during the Renaissance. This talk invites us to think art historically about decorated documents, and, at the same time, to begin to leverage the unique affordances of legal documents in art history. Concentrating on one Tudor limner, Levina Teerlinc, this talk demonstrates that the prosopographical networks revealed in the documents she may have painted suggest that the documentary networks and Levina’s biographical networks closely overlapped. Since, like most artists of her day, Levina did not sign her work, these overlapping networks allow us to support the painter’s identity with new evidence.
Professor Kathleen Kennedy runs the project The Fifteenth-Century Renaissance in English Book Art.
