A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

pamphlets and prints representing her as the devil, a witch, a vampire, “Austria’s creature,” a hydra headed ...

range of works of art. It held seven exhibitions between 1751 and 1774, at various venues and on different ...

efforts to show works of art beyond the narrow confines of the royal court intensified and in 1796 a catalo ...

neoclassical) in France, Italy and elsewhere (Kaufman, 1995, 307–330, 368–438). Frederick the Great acquired ...

seen as increasing competition from street culture. They were then held annually every year (exc ...

Collection at Versailles. The Salons were not, however, the only occasions on which the public could view ...

in 1769) and less official or hierarchic public displays of art. Churches and civic buildings accommodat ...

1762 many of the artists involved in the 1760 exhibition had abandoned the Society of Arts, due to its effo ...

SaintBernard ) (1800–1801) for which the entry fees earned him an impressive sum as well as enhanced celebrity. ...

The display of portraits could fuel both scandal and celebrity. The subjects of actress portraits in particula ...

Figure 3.5 Pietro Antonio Martini (1738–1797): The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787, engraving on paper, 36 ...

sides of windows rather than in more prominent positions. Preparatory sketches were sometimes displayed al ...

among the printmakers who parodied such representations of Academy crowds; for example, by creating a caricature ...

publication in 1747 of La Font de Saint Yenne’s Reflexions (see Chapter 2) the role of the public as activ ...

eighteenthcentury social practices such as the salons: informal gatherings held in private drawing rooms, of ...

would not admit men of commerce to his company. Ironically, it was precisely the burgeoning mercantile classes t ...

The discourses of “politeness” served to unify hitherto disparate elements of the public. The merging of ranks ...

Public consensus on matters of taste remained a fragile, and perhaps unattainable, ideal. This was particul ...

Women at Royal Academy exhibitions were often marginalized as viewers of art, even though they were bec ...

differences and anthropological distinctiveness. Art “publics” were increasingly aware of the colonial territories ...