A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

irreducible to any simple frameworks such as those provided by style labels or unifying narratives of chang ...

outside Europe. Edward Said, Timothy Mitchell, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Mitter and David Porter are among thos ...

the former is seen to share many of the attributes (fine brush work, the study of specific traditions) ...

been established in 1600 by Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603) and granted a British monopoly in trade ...

different types of art object. Chapter 2 investigates the complex and shifting allocations of status within the h ...

1 Institutional Hierarchies: Art and Craft Establishing a Fine Art Tradition: The Spread of Academies The French ...

defined their interests primarily in opposition to those of craftsmen. They were dedicated to the gentrifi ...

The Académie royale in Paris (established in 1648) was greatly influenced by its Italian forebears. It benefited ...

Figure 1.1 Gawen Hamilton (1698–1737): A Conversation of Virtuosis ... at the Kings Arms, oil on canvas, 8 ...

set up in 1720 by the artists John Vanderbank (1694–1739) and Louis Chéron (1660–1725), and formally reestablish ...

Stockholm and Dresden) reorganized in order to serve better the needs of national manufacturing and commerce ...

drawings and commissioned paintings from Nathaniel DanceHolland (1735–1811), Benjamin West (1738–1820) and ...

access to apprenticeships in the workshops of eminent artists. This meant that, even though their educatio ...

writer Roger de Piles (1635–1709), appointed as “honorary amateur” in the Academy, stimulated fresh critic ...

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Figure 1.2 Angelica Kauffman: Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, 127 × 101.5 cm, 1767, National Trust Collect ...

intellectual, narrative and formal conception of a painting: decisions about which figures, accessories, bac ...

employed. The study of plaster casts of antique sculptures allowed students to form a storehouse of “memories ...

as a result of frequent observation of real bodies in action. From these frequent observations the anci ...

What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither the one, ...