The Anglo-Florentines
The Anglo-Florentines

Author: Diana Webb

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-12-26

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 1350136026

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This book looks at the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many others were shopkeepers, merchants and even engineers. Some achieved a more profound knowledge of the country (and its language) than others, but all were affected to some degree by the momentous events which led to Italian unification.

The Bibliographer's Manual of the English Literature
The Bibliographer's Manual of the English Literature

Author: William Thomas Lowndes

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13: 3382104733

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century
Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Hilary Fraser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1316062090

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This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.