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Author: Edgar Peters Bowron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780300126808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInventive storytelling: the early subject pictures -- Batoni's British patrons and the grand tour -- Painter of princes and prince of painters -- Restorer of the Roman school: final years and reception -- Drawings, working methods, and studio practices.
Author: Edgar Peters Bowron
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9780300148169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from popes, princes, and British aristocrats on the Grand Tour. Batoni was highly sought after for his theatrical yet incisive--and often flattering--portraits. Connoisseurs and cognoscenti also prized his learned and technically brilliant allegorical, religious, and mythological compositions. With entries on more than 480 paintings and 250 drawings, this magnificent two-volume set provides the most complete examination to date of Batoni's entire oeuvre. Featuring beautiful, high-quality reproductions, the book provides thorough details on provenance and exhibition history as well as biographies of the portrait sitters. New analysis of the works, resulting from decades of research, reinterprets some of Batoni's iconography, identifies new textual and visual sources of his imagery, and reveals insights gleaned from unpublished archival materials"--
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9004412670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume represents the first move towards a comprehensive overview of the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. Eschewing a narrow focus on any one theme, it seeks to understand eighteenth-century engagements with antiquity on their own terms, focusing on the contexts, questions, and agendas that led people to turn to the ancient past. The contributors show that a profound interest in antiquity permeated all spheres of intellectual and creative endeavour, from antiquarianism to political discourse, travel writing to portraiture, theology to education. They offer new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Rousseau and Hume, as well as insights into hitherto obscure antiquarians and scholars. What emerges is a richer, more textured understanding of the substantial eighteenth-century engagement with antiquity.
Author: Tate Gallery
Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis catalogue looks at the Grand Tour, a vital aspect of European civilisation in the age of the Enlightenment, from the point of view of several countries and includes the work of foremost artists of the period.
Author: Steffi Roettgen
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the Seven Years' War cut off Mengs's official source of income from the Elector of Saxony, he was probably grateful to be able to turn to the lucrative field of Grand Tour portraiture.
Author: Erich Hatala Matthes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 019753757X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo the moral lives of artists affect the aesthetic quality of their work? Is it morally permissible for us to engage with or enjoy that work? Should immoral artists and their work be "canceled"? Matthes employs the tools of philosophy to offer insight and clarity to these ethical questions. He argues that it doesn't matter whether we can separate the art from the artist, because we shouldn't
Author: Michael Elia Yonan
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780271037226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsburg empress Maria Theresa"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Hanns Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-22
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780521893787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only scholarly work in the English language on the city of Rome in the Age of the Enlightenment, and the only book in any language to treat this fascinating city in all its multifarious aspects. Professor Gross combines extensive archival research with the latest findings of other scholars to produce a uniquely rounded portrait of the papal capital, elegantly illustrated with contemporary engravings by Piranesi and others. The book is divided into two sections, in the first of which Professor Gross discusses the material and institutional structures of the city, including its demography, economy, food supply, and judicial systems. The second section considers aspects of intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Professor Gross contends not only that ancien-regime Rome witnessed a decline in Counter-Reformation fervour, but that this decay resulted in a marked dissonance in the political, social, and cultural life of the city.
Author: Viccy Coltman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-14
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 110841768X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.
Author: David Morgan
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9089640193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its origins in the mid-seventeenth century visions of the French nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–90) to its continuing employment in worship today, the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial. Vigorously promoted by Jesuit spiritual directors, embroiled in the controversies of Jansenist writers, closely associated with Royalist political causes in France, and taken around the world by Sister Sophie Barat in the nineteenth century, the Devotion’s practices took on the shape of its evolving visual culture and iconography. This volume traces the unfolding visual biography of the sacred heart and shows how imagery documents the Devotion’s remarkable evolution.
