The Lay of the Land: English Landscape Themes in Early Modern Painting in England (original) (raw)
My dissertation is the product of extended research over the course of many years, relying on the resources of many institutions and the expertise of numerous scholars. I owe my deepest gratitude to Christine Goettler, now at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Bern, for her continual guidance, encouragement, and patience with my project's wide range of material and extended time length. Her own exemplary research provided a model, while she guided me through the challenges of various media and inspired a more thoughtful analysis. At the University of Washington, I am grateful to insights of faculty and fellow students from several disciplines and departments, including English and Comparative Literature, Textual Studies, History, Art, and Architecture, as well as Art History. My initial idea was formulated in a class on English Art taught by Fritz Levy from the History Department, while my methodological approach was shaped by the Textual Studies program, then under the direction of Raimonda Modiano. I appreciate her guidance in interdisciplinary scholarship, and her classes on textuality, material culture, and the history of the book. I owe a debt to Leroy Searle's contemporary account of literary theory, as well as Paul Remny's introduction to manuscript studies. In the Architecture Department, Grant Hildebrand provided a grounding in English architecture and in the intricacies of Medieval construction techniques. In the Department of Art History, I owe thanks to Pat Failing and Marek Wieczorek for their classes on art historical theory and Rene Bravvman for a broad cultural interpretative perspective. Susan Casteras read many papers during the development of my project and offered support essential to its completion. Estelle Lingo's scholarship and elegant prose on the Italian Renaissance formed a constant written model; Jeffrey Collins, now at Bard College, encouraged an analytical language unburdened by time-bound terminology. I am also indebted to the private and institutional collections in the United States, continental Europe, and Great Britain that house the material of my dissertation. The conservation efforts of the National Trust in the United Kingdom and the National Trust for Scotland have preserved many of the buildings, archives, and artefacts in my study. I am grateful for the care and preservation of houses in England and the many generations of families who maintained their collections. My dissertation particularly relies on the resources preserved at