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This chapter begins with a sculptural group, not an easel painting. It is the effigy of James I which faces the main entrance of the Bodleian Library, on the inside of the Tower of the Five Orders described by Pevsner as ‘a frontispiece prouder than any in England’. The sculpture was erected to commemorate the foundation of the library by Sir Thomas Bodley in the early years of the seventeenth century. It is a concentrated and richly allusive image of a king who responded to the book more than to visual imagery but who nevertheless well understood the power of art.
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Howarth, D. (1997). The Royal Portrait: The Stuarts. In: Images of Rule. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25481-1_5
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