Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA, 1836-1912
Author : Sheffield City Art Galleries
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
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Author : Sheffield City Art Galleries
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
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Author : Stephanie Moser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190697024
Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day, the leading British history painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Poynter and Edwin Long created a striking body of artworks in which archaeology was a prime focus. Of the growing community of historicist and classicist painters in mid-nineteenth century Britain, these artists expressed a passion for archaeological detail, and their aesthetic engagement with ancient material culture played a key role in fostering the enthusiasm for antiquity with wider audiences. Painting Antiquity explores the archaeological dimension of their paintings in detail, addressing how the relationship these artists had with ancient objects represented a distinctive and important development in the cultural reception of the past. The book also considers the inspiration for the movement defined as "archaeological genre painting," the artistic and historic context for this new style, the archaeological sources upon which the artworks were based, and the critical reception of the paintings in the world of Victorian art criticism. Alongside extensive visual evidence, rendered here in both striking color and black-and-white imagery, Stephanie Moser shows how this artistic practice influenced our understanding of ancient Egypt. Further, she argues that these paintings affected the development of archaeology as a discipline, revealing how the painters had an intense engagement with archaeology, representing artefacts in extraordinary detail and promoting the use of ancient material culture according to an aesthetic agenda. The issues raised by placing importance on concepts of beauty and decoration, over values such as rarity, function, or historical use continue to divide archaeologists and art historians in the present day. Ultimately, by demonstrating how the artistic dialogue with antiquity contributed to defining it, Painting Antiquity sheds important new light on the two-way exchanges between visual representations of the past and knowledge formation.
Author : Meaghan Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351160583
Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws on a diversity of sources, including diaries, letters and periodicals, to highlight the many different forms their criticism took. Focusing in particular on the work of three women - Alice Meynell, Florence Fenwick-Miller and Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Clarke argues that in order to understand fully art debates of the time it is essential we broaden our understanding of the role of women in the construction of art history. John Singer Sargent, James MacNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Butler, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Leighton, Walter Sickert, Henrietta Rae, and Rosa Bonheur are among the artists considered.
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Arts
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Peter Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1784422029
London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians, along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arranged geographically, this comprehensive guide describes famous graves in all the major cemeteries and churches in Greater London, including Highgate, Kensal Green, Westminster Abbey, and St Paul's Cathedral, as well as the City churches and many suburban parish churches. The book gives biographical details, information on the monuments, and is richly illustrated. As well as being an historical guide, it also serves as an indispensable reference guide for any budding tombstone tourist.
Author : Charles E. Hallé
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Painters
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Page : 920 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 1905
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
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Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drawing, European
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