Hogarth Reynolds Turner : British painting and the rise of modernity / edited by Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi
- Published:
- Milano : Skira, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Brook, Carolina, Curzi, Valter, 1949-, and Fondazione Roma. Museo
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Eighteenth-century British Painting and Its Audience: The "Rule of Taste" and Mercantile Society / Adriano Aymonino -- The Debate on the Arts in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, from Shaftesbury to Hogarth / Ilaria Miarelli Mariani -- The Debate on History Painting and the Royal Academy / Carolina Brook -- The Portrait in Eighteenth-century Britain: Theory and Practice / Brian Allen -- Painting and Theatre in the English Cultural Context / Robin Simon -- Eighteenth-century Depiction of London / Pat Hardy -- Landscape Painting in England / Martin Postle -- Turner and Constable: Poetics and Technique / Andrew Wilton -- From the Ideal to the Real Landscape: British Painters in Italy in the Eighteenth Century / Valter Curzi -- The Venice of the English, the England of the Venetians / Sergio Marinelli -- Reynolds in Rome / Giovanna Perini Folesani -- Johan Zoffany in Italy: "... cosi esattamente che piu oltre non si potrebbe" / Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari -- Collecting Italian Paintings in Eighteenth-century Britain / Paolo Coen -- Catalogue of Works -- I.London, Capital of the British Empire -- II.The New World -- III.Towards a National Iconography -- IV.The Heroic Age of the Portrait -- V.On the Spot Landscape: The Success of Watercolour -- VI.Variations on Landscape -- VII.Inside and Beyond Landscape: Constable and Turner.
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- ISBN:
- 9788857222714
8857222713 - Note:
- Exhibition held: Rome, Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Sciarra, 15 April - 20 July 2014.
- Technical Details:
- The exhibition curated by Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi intends to offer a comprehensive overview of the social and artistic development that took place during the XVIII century in step with the hegemony gained by Great Britain at the historical, political and economic level. For this purpose a corpus of over one hundred works belonging to prestigious institutions such as the British Museum, Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Academy, the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of London and the Uffizi Gallery has been formed and is accompanied by a nucleus of works from the important American collection belonging to the Yale Centre of British Art.
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