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Tag Archives: Richard Cosway
POMPEII: Dangerously Low Necklines
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi- although what sometimes passed for “classical” would have … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged A.O. Lovejoy, Beau Brummell, Boily, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Boas, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Keats, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Max Beerbohm, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Cosway, Robert Adam Architect, Roger Sandall, Sir Kenneth Clark
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REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD
The main claim is that the Romantics turned the agenda of the Enlightenment on its head with a vengeance; it was crisis in an age of reason, the somewhat logical and not unexpected reaction to a scientific age. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Sturgis, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Dante Alighieri, Edward Young, Ernst Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Isaac Newton, Jim Lane, John Flaxman, John Keats, John Locke, Joseph Wright, Joyce Plesters, Kieron Devlin, Lynne Gibson, Marco Lanzagorta, Mario Praz, Martin Myrone, Michael Cohen, Milton, Peggy Hadden, Peter Swaab, Rembrandt, Richard Cosway, Robert Miles, Romantic Age, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Tim Blanning, William Blake, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth
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