Victorian Painting

Автор: Julian Treuherz
Название: Victorian Painting
Издательство: Thames and Hudson
Год: 1993
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 220
Язык: English
Размер: 16.7 MB

The range of artistic production in the Victorian age included history painting; topographical landscapes of the Continent and the Middle East; Landseer's royal portraits and heroic animal pictures; Pre-Raphaelite painting with its combined naturalism and symbolism; Leighton's classical mythologies; and Frith's popular depictions of the leisured middle classes. Amid this great variety of styles and emphasis, influential critics such as Ruskin dictated that art should be morally uplifting, an orthodoxy challenged by Whistler, Sickert, Steer and their fellows among the "London Impressionists".