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Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730

Author : Lydia Hamlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Mural painting and decoration, British
ISBN : LCCN:2019051571

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Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730 by Lydia Hamlett Pdf

This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain. At the time, these were called 'histories'. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as 'history painting' achieved the status of a sublime genre, any link with painted architectural interiors was lost. Whilst both genres contained historical figures and narratives, it was the ways of viewing them that differed. Lydia Hamlett emphasises the way that mural paintings were experienced by spectators within their architectural settings. New iconographical interpretations and theories of effect and affect are considered an important part of their wider historical, cultural and social contexts. This book is intended to be read primarily by specialists, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in new approaches to British art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"

Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940

Author : Clare A. P. Willsdon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198175159

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Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940 by Clare A. P. Willsdon Pdf

This survey sets state, civic, commercial, church, private and other murals in their historical and cultural contexts. The book covers work by over 400 artists and numerous murals never previously documented or illustrated.

Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730

Author : Lydia Hamlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315466156

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Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730 by Lydia Hamlett Pdf

This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain. At the time, these were called ‘histories’. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as ‘history painting’ achieved the status of a sublime genre, any link with painted architectural interiors was lost. Whilst both genres contained historical figures and narratives, it was the ways of viewing them that differed. Lydia Hamlett emphasises the way that mural paintings were experienced by spectators within their architectural settings. New iconographical interpretations and theories of effect and affect are considered an important part of their wider historical, cultural and social contexts. This book is intended to be read primarily by specialists, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in new approaches to British art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Britain and the Continent 1660‒1727

Author : Christina Strunck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110750775

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Britain and the Continent 1660‒1727 by Christina Strunck Pdf

This monograph examines the most prestigious political paintings created in Britain during the High Baroque age. It investigates a period characterized by numerous social, political, and religious crises, in the years between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy (1660) and the death of the first British monarch from the House of Hanover (1727). On the basis of hitherto unpublished documents, the book elucidates the creation and reception of nine major commissions that involved the court, private aristocratic patrons, and/or civic institutions. The ground-breaking new interpretations of these works focus on strategies of conflict resolution, the creation of shared cultural memories, processes of cultural translation, the performative context of the murals and the interaction of painted images and architectural spaces.

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Author : Isabelle Baudino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000843385

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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain by Isabelle Baudino Pdf

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.

Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735

Author : Eilish Gregory,Michael C. Questier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031388132

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Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735 by Eilish Gregory,Michael C. Questier Pdf

This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies, concentrating on the later Stuart queens from the restoration of King Charles II (who married Catherine of Braganza in 1662) until the death of Maria Clementina Sobieska in 1735, who was married to James Francis Edward Stuart, the titular King James III, otherwise known as the Old Pretender. It showcases these women’s roles as queen consorts and as ruling queens in Britain and Europe, and reveals how their positions allowed them to act as power-brokers, diplomats, patrons, and religious trendsetters during their lifetimes. It also explores their impact in early modern Britain and Europe by assessing their influence in religion, political culture, and the promotion of patronage.

Hidden Patrons

Author : Amy Boyington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350358638

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Hidden Patrons by Amy Boyington Pdf

An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing instead that women were at the heart of the architectural patronage of the day, exerting far more influence and agency than has previously been recognised. Architectural drawing and design, discourse, and patronage were interests shared by many women in the eighteenth century. Far from being the preserve of elite men, architecture was a passion shared by both sexes, intellectually and practically, as long as they possessed sufficient wealth and autonomy. In an accessible, readable account, Hidden Patrons uncovers the role of women as important patrons and designers of architecture and interiors in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Exploring country houses, Georgian townhouses, villas, estates, and gardens, it analyses female patronage from across the architectural spectrum, and examines the work of a range of pioneering women from grand duchesses to businesswomen to lowly courtesans. Re-examining well-known Georgian masterpieces alongside lesser-known architectural gems, Hidden Patrons unearths unseen archival material to provide a fascinating new view of the role of women in the architecture of the Georgian era.

Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800

Author : Joan Coutu,Jon Stobart,Peter N. Lindfield
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228014973

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Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 by Joan Coutu,Jon Stobart,Peter N. Lindfield Pdf

Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.

Celestial Aspirations

Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691233307

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Celestial Aspirations by Philip Hardie Pdf

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes—through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler. From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens—as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era.

Out of the Stream

Author : Luís Urbano Afonso,Vítor Serrão
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527566354

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Out of the Stream by Luís Urbano Afonso,Vítor Serrão Pdf

The subject of this book arises from recent developments in the inventory, preservation and study of mural paintings from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly those from what can be considered the periphery of Europe. The aim of this book is to demonstrate the vitality that the study of wall painting in peripheral regions can bring to the discipline of Art History. The articles collected in this book are overwhelmingly about wall paintings that would be hard pressed to be considered part of the master narrative of Art History. They are studies regarding regions and themes that are rarely present in the mainstream of the discipline, but their common thread is their focus on the functional dimension of mural paintings and on the complex interrelation between image, audience, social context and everyday life. From Denmark to Portugal, from graffiti to secular painting, from the orthodox monasteries of Moldavia to the noble residences of Tirol, from Giotto to anonymous and sometimes almost amateur painters, the studies gathered in this book place very distinct artistic realities side by side offering complementary perspectives and insights. The book will make a valuable contribution to the literature on Medieval and Renaissance mural painting, combining theoretical essays with others more descriptive. As the eighteen studies collected in this book deal with paintings from a range of European regions, from Denmark to Portugal and Romania, the book will find its way in Europe and abroad, both in the field of art history and that of Medieval and Early Modern history. The wealth of plates and figures will make the book also accessible to a broad audience interested in the history of painting, architecture and cultural heritage.

Early Modern Spectatorship

Author : Ronald Huebert,David McNeil
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773557925

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Early Modern Spectatorship by Ronald Huebert,David McNeil Pdf

What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use the idea of spectatorship to reinterpret canonical early modern texts and bring visibility to relatively unknown works. While many early modern spectacles were designed to influence those who watched, the very presence of spectators and their behaviour could alter the conduct and the meaning of the event itself. In the case of public executions, for example, audiences could both observe and be observed by the executioner and the condemned. Drawing on work in the digital humanities and theories of cultural spectacle, these essays discuss subjects as various as the death of Desdemona in Othello, John Donne's religious orientation, Ned Ward's descriptions of London, and Louis Laguerre's murals painted for the residences of English aristocrats. A lucid exploration of subtle questions, Early Modern Spectatorship identifies, imagines, and describes the spectator's experience in early modern culture.

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:

Author : Richard J. Jones
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638040828

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Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: by Richard J. Jones Pdf

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation on the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.

The Australian Art Field

Author : Tony Bennett,Deborah Stevenson,Fred Myers,Tamara Winikoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429590009

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The Australian Art Field by Tony Bennett,Deborah Stevenson,Fred Myers,Tamara Winikoff Pdf

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets; art practices in their broader social and political contexts; social relations and institutions and their role in contemporary Australian art; the policy regimes and funding programmes of Australian governments; and national and international art markets. In addition, the collection will pay detailed attention to the field of indigenous art and the work of Indigenous artists. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, cultural studies, and Indigenous peoples.

Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America

Author : Oscar E. Vázquez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187534

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Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America by Oscar E. Vázquez Pdf

This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The book highlights not only issues shared by Latin American academies of art but also those that differentiate them from their European counterparts. Authors examine issues including statutes, the influence of workshops and guilds, the importance of patronage, discourses of race and ethnicity in visual pedagogy, and European models versus the quest for national schools. It also offers first-time English translations of many foundational documents from several significant academies and schools. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and modern visual cultures.

Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

Author : Francesco Freddolini,Marco Musillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000078374

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Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia by Francesco Freddolini,Marco Musillo Pdf

This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan. The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global, cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts, items of commercial exchange, objects looted at war, maritime connections, and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects, people, and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional—rather, it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition, by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets,this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards.