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Nicholas Hilliard

1577 - 1619

Nicholas Hilliard
Età Moderna
Età Moderna

Nicholas Hilliard

Born 1577 Died 1619

Primi Anni e Formazione Nato: Exeter, Regno Unito (1547) Morto: 1619 Nicholas Hilliard nacque a Exeter, Devon, Inghilterra, intorno al 1547. Era figlio di Richard Hilliard, un fervente protestante orafo e sceriffo di Exeter, e Laurence Wall, figlia di un orafo londinese. La professione del padre probabilmente lo introdusse alla raffinata artigianalità fin da giovane. Aveva tre fratelli: due divennero orafi e uno fu ecclesiastico. In tenera età, fu affidato alla famiglia di John Bodley, padre di Thomas Bodley che fondò la Biblioteca Bodleiana a Oxford. Nel 1557, all'età di dieci…

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An Interactive Constellation

The Subject Atlas

A chart of Nicholas Hilliard's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.

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Spokes — Subject

Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.

Rings — Career Period

Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.

Threads — Shared Context

Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.