Author: Mrs. Russell Barrington
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton
Author: Mrs. Russell Barrington
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton
Author: Mrs. Russell Barrington
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Category : Art, Victorian
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Art, Victorian
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Modern English Biography: (Supplement v.1-3)
Author: Frederic Boase
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic Boase
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Frederic Leighton
Author: KerenRosa Hammerschlag
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351566598
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag's Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection offers a timely reexamination of the art of the late Victorian period's most institutionally powerful artist, Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896). As President of the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1896, Leighton was committed to the pursuit of beauty in art through the depiction of classical subjects, executed according to an academic working-method. But as this book reveals, Leighton's art and discourse were beset by the realisation that academic art would likely die with him. Rather than achieving classical perfection, Hammerschlag argues, Leighton's figures hover in transitional states between realism and idealism, flesh and marble, life and death, as gothic distortions of the classical ideal. The author undertakes close readings of key paintings, sculptures, frescos and drawings in Leighton's oeuvre, and situates them in the context of contemporaneous debates about death and resurrection in theology, archaeology and medicine. The outcome is a pleasurably macabre counter-biography that reconfigures what it meant to be not just a late-Victorian neoclassicist and royal academician, but President of the Victorian Royal Academy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351566598
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag's Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection offers a timely reexamination of the art of the late Victorian period's most institutionally powerful artist, Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896). As President of the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1896, Leighton was committed to the pursuit of beauty in art through the depiction of classical subjects, executed according to an academic working-method. But as this book reveals, Leighton's art and discourse were beset by the realisation that academic art would likely die with him. Rather than achieving classical perfection, Hammerschlag argues, Leighton's figures hover in transitional states between realism and idealism, flesh and marble, life and death, as gothic distortions of the classical ideal. The author undertakes close readings of key paintings, sculptures, frescos and drawings in Leighton's oeuvre, and situates them in the context of contemporaneous debates about death and resurrection in theology, archaeology and medicine. The outcome is a pleasurably macabre counter-biography that reconfigures what it meant to be not just a late-Victorian neoclassicist and royal academician, but President of the Victorian Royal Academy.
The Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2086
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2086
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Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Sidney Lee
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2088
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2088
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Dictionary of National Biography: Neil-Young
Dictionary of National Biography: Neil-Young
Author: Sir Sidney Lee
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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