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Author : John Ingamells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1179274363
Author : John Ingamells,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060110387
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
Author : John F. Kerslake,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015257200
Covers the period 1714-1760 and includes portraits in other collections.
Author : Shelley Bennett,Mark Leonard,Shearer West
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365579
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.
Author : Sarah Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351061810
This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette’s inner circle. Drawing extensively on unpublished archival sources, Sarah Grant examines the princess’s many portrait commissions and the rich character of her private collections, which included works by some of the period’s leading artists and artisans. The book sheds new light on the agency, sorority and taste of Marie-Antoinette and her friends, a group of female patrons and model of courtly collecting that would be extinguished by the coming revolution.
Author : Sally Baggott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317099314
Matthew Boulton was a leading industrialist, entrepreneur and Enlightenment figure. Often overshadowed through his association with James Watt, his Soho manufactories put Birmingham at the centre of what has recently been termed 'The Industrial Enlightenment'. Exploring his many activities and manufactures-and the regional, national and international context in which he operated-this publication provides a valuable index to the current state of Boulton studies. Combining original contributions from social, economic, and cultural historians, with those of historians of science, technology and art, archaeologists and heritage professionals, the book sheds new light on the general culture of the eighteenth century, including patterns of work, production and consumption of the products of art and industry. The book also extends and enhances knowledge of the Enlightenment, industrialization and the processes of globalization in the eighteenth century.
Author : Edgar Peters Bowron,Peter Björn Kerber,Pompeo Batoni,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,National gallery (Londres).
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300126808
Inventive 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 : Giselle Walker,Elisabeth Leedham-Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521897266
Aspects of identity explored by eight distinguished authors from different academic disciplines.
Author : John Kerslake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:988890559
Author : John Sainsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351924979
John Wilkes remains one of the most colourful and intriguing characters of eighteenth-century Britain. Born in 1725, the son of a prosperous London distiller, he was given the classical education of a gentleman, before entering politics as a Whig. Finding his party in opposition following the accession of George III in 1760 he took up his pen with sensational effect, and made a career out of excoriating the new administration and promoting the Whig interest. His charismatic style and vicious wit soon ensured that he became a figurehead for the radical cause, earning him many admirers and many enemies. Amongst the latter were the king, and the artist William Hogarth who famously depicted Wilkes as a grinning, squint-eyed, pug-nosed agent of misrule. Whilst Wilkes's political career has been much explored, particularly the period between 1763 and 1774, much less has been written about his remarkable private life. This biography provides a more comprehensive examination of Wilkes throughout his long life than has hitherto been available. Taking a thematic, rather than chronological approach it is divided into six main chapters covering family, ambition, sex, religion, class and money, which allows a much more rounded picture of Wilkes to emerge. In so doing it provides a fascinating insight, not only into one of the most intriguing characters of the Georgian period, but also into wider eighteenth-century British society and its shifting attitudes to morality, politics and gender.
Author : Bruce Redford
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892369249
Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351886635
The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work not only for More scholars but for those researching the careers of many of her contemporaries. Features include an extended narrative analysis of the manuscripts that plots More's participation in the manuscript culture of the period and contextualizes the individual entries in the index; provenance details for the more substantial manuscript holdings in British and North American repositories; and identification of numerous autograph manuscripts and transcripts in public and private collections. More than 1,500 letters in 95 locations in Britain and North America have been inventoried and precise dates and internal locators are supplied when known. More's letters, the majority of which have never been published, are a largely untapped source of primary materials for scholars and students researching such diverse subjects as the literary activities and opinions of the Bluestocking circle, women's conduct and education, publishing and the book trade, the national debate over the abolition of the slave trade, the rise of the Evangelical movement, the conservative reaction to the American and French revolutions, and the Napoleonic wars.
Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351209052
Stepfamilies were as common in the European past as they are today. Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400–1800 is the first in-depth study to chart four centuries of continuity and change for these complex families created by the death of a parent and the remarriage of the survivor. With geographic coverage from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia and from the Atlantic coast to Central Europe, this collection of essays from leading scholars compares how religious affiliation, laws and cultural attitudes shaped stepfamily realities. Exploring stepfamilies across society from artisans to princely rulers, this book considers the impact of remarriage on the bonds between parents and their children, stepparents and stepchildren, while offering insights into the relationships between full siblings, half siblings and stepsiblings. The contributors investigate a variety of primary sources from songs to letters and memoirs, printed Protestant funeral works, Catholic dispensation requests, kinship puzzles, legitimation petitions, and documents drawn up by notaries, to understand the experiences and life cycle of a family and its members – whether growing up as a stepchild or forming a stepfamily through marital choice as an adult. Featuring an array of visual evidence, and drawing on topics such as widowhood, remarriage, and the guardianship of children, Stepfamilies in Europe will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of the family.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 1555953611
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,Angela Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107354784
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.