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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"History Painting"”.
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Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting
'Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting' examines the changing iconography of Petr I (1672-1725) in nineteenth-century Russian painting, and its relationship with Petr's symbolic role in the cultural debate between the Westernisers and the Slavophiles over the interpretation of the …
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Johnathan Richardson's art theory: The canon of history painting and its preeminent realization in Raphael's cartoons
… Richardson published An Essay on The Theory of Painting, he established English leadership in the writing of theoretical treatises on art. Prior to this time, no Englishman had produced a distinctive and comprehensive explanation of art theory or an essay that was of equal stature to those long …
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The Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies by Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson: Hybridity, History Painting, and the Grand Tour
… strove to surpass his teacher in two ways: 1) by painting David's Neoclassical style so well that his handling surpasses that of his master, and 2) by choosing subject matter never before explored by David. Girodet accomplishes both within this work. The Neoclassical handling of the image has been …
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Universal Expositions of the Second Empire: A Study in Art and Politics (Volumes I and II)
… of Industry and Commerce. It treats in depth the painting of France, England, Belgium, and Germany, and the fate of history, genre, and landscape painting during this period. It also examines the development of such modern concepts as paid admission, retrospective shows, the split between popular …
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Representations of War and Conflict in the Painting of Gustave Doré
… title Representations of War and Conflict in the Painting of Gustave Doré, proposes to explore one of Gustave Doré’s little-known, but extensive oeuvres in painting. That is, the artist’s representation of conflict through the modes of history painting and allegory. With an initial chapter, Doré’s …
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Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo's Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy
Buxton, Anna, M.A., Spring 2012 Major Art Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo’s Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy Chairperson: Dr. Valerie Hedquist In 1747, newly appointed Directeur general des Bâtiments du Roi, Charles – François Le Normand de Tournehem organized a concours, or …
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Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo's Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy
Buxton, Anna, M.A., Spring 2012 Major Art Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo’s Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy Chairperson: Dr. Valerie Hedquist In 1747, newly appointed Directeur general des Bâtiments du Roi, Charles – François Le Normand de Tournehem organized a concours, or …
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Ford Madox Brown: works on paper and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
… to examine how his interpretation of history was affected by contemporary changes in historiography, and to discuss his practical approach to composing a history painting. Chapter 3 studies illustrations he made for publication. Progressing chronologically, it explores his changing …
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Creating a Female History Painter: Vigée-Lebrun, Labille-Guiard, Mongez, and the French Academy
… little attention has been paid, however, to the history paintings created by them and their respective presentation in the Salons of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and, later, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. This thesis offers the first sustained consideration of Vigée-Lebrun, …
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Civilizing the Prehispanic: Neo-Prehispanic Imagery and Constructions of Nationhood in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1910)
… All of this will be looked at in relation to history painting, monuments and architecture. The main objectives of the research aim to be both practical (a catalogue of material 'Appendix B'), and interpretative. The correct cataloguing and identification of this material together with an …
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A three part project consisting of graduating essay, student internship report, studio work in painting
… of art by combining the disciplines of art history, painting and arts administration through the Faculties of Arts and Commerce and Business Administration. This three part project replaced a traditional thesis in order to best explore these disciplines. Part I is a graduating essay, which …
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Women writers on art and perceptions of the female connoisseur, 1780-1860
… and excessive finish, and for portraiture over history painting, reversing the academic canon. A survey of periodicals reveals that such stereotypes persisted throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, my investigation of women's writing on art between 1780 and 1860 …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
This studio-based research explores how painting can act as a vehicle for my reflections on the invasion and colonisation of Tasmania. The project brings together three fields of inquiry: the history of invasion and colonisation in Tasmania, contemporary politics, and the history and contemporary …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
This studio-based research explores how painting can act as a vehicle for my reflections on the invasion and colonisation of Tasmania. The project brings together three fields of inquiry: the history of invasion and colonisation in Tasmania, contemporary politics, and the history and contemporary …
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Nancy Spero: printing, writing, collaging
… made feminist interventions into the medium of painting and into exclusionary patriarchal narratives as they are presented in museums. The result is an oeuvre visualizing what Gertrude Stein called a “continuous present,” revealing how misogyny recurs in different ways throughout time. Spero …
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London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, 1760-1782: The impact on landscape painting and its reception
… in establishing a market for landscape painting between 1760 and 1782 cannot be substantiated. However, two overtly mercantile initiatives, an auction of contemporary British art in 1763 and the subsequent concession to allow exhibitors to mark their work for sale from 1764, did initiate …
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The metaphor of perspective
… of decorum long associated with “good” painting, but satirically subverts them to create a series of grotesque images of courtiers and parliamentarians in keeping with his corrupt subject matter. Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis also draws upon visual cultural material to give a more favorable …
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‘To Recover Art to the Florentine Original’: William Blake’s Reception of Michelangelo
… and its earlier designs (c. 1805–27), as history painting. I interpret Blake’s Last Judgement as a public-facing, didactic, narrative work in the tradition of the Renaissance painters, made with the ideological purpose of making ‘England like Italy’ (E 768).
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Held und Antiheld : Leitfiguren antiker Autoren in Grafikzyklen von Max Slevogt und Lovis Corinth
In art history, the rupture between two interceding styles is seldom as sharp as between classicism and modern art. The striving for the human ideal body, presumed as timeless, loses its influence. Many recently published studies show the persisting influence of antiquity on avant-garde art in the …
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… or ‘Grand Style’. By contrast, in West’s paintings, the affinity between Gothicism and rococo, paraergonal, beauty is already in the process of being wrenched apart. That is why my chapter on West is the last in the dissertation. I show that he is both an heir to this whole neo-Gothic …
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