Johnathan Richardson's art theory: The canon of history painting and its preeminent realization in Raphael's cartoons

In 1715, when 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 produced on the continent, particularly in Italy and France, during the previous three centuries. With the publication of his succeeding essays, The Art of Criticism and The Science of a Connoisseur, which were published in one volume as The Two Discourses, 1719, and in An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas Reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, 1722, Richardson's prominence in the field was fixed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Mora, Stephanie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Manthorne, Katherine

• Biography
• Art History

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Mora, Stephanie

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591089158
AAI9702614
(UMI)AAI9702614

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21739