Portrait of an age: Sir Anthony van Dyck, court artist to Charles I, is the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Britain. Kevin Sharpe, consultant to the project, argues that the visual arts can be as valuable as the written word to historians seeking a better understanding of the nature of politics and power.(FRONTLINE)

History Today | March 1, 2009| | Copyright

Though there are signs that things are changing, historians have shown surprisingly little interest in the visual documents of their period. I do not mean that they have completely ignored pictures. Many history books are lavishly illustrated. But usually illustrations receive little analysis and are more decoration than evidence for understanding an age.

For a long time this was the case with literature, quotations serving as baubles on the branches of arguments rooted in the historian's preferred and supposedly true materials: archives, printed pamphlets and the ...

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