Epic Landscapes
Epic Landscapes

Author: Julia A. Sienkewicz

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1644531615

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Winner of College Art Association’s Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l’oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe’s architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe’s watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution.

Latrobe's View of America, 1795-1820
Latrobe's View of America, 1795-1820

Author: Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780300029499

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The 161 drawings, sketches, and watercolors in the volume cover a wide variety of subjects: rivers, roads, bridges, canals, towns, flora and fauna, people in their homes and at work and play.

Epic Landscapes
Epic Landscapes

Author: Julia Sienkewicz

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1644531593

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Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l’oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe’s architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe’s watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.