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This cluster of papers explores the cultural transfer and artistic exchange in Europe, focusing on topics such as European travel, the Grand Tour, Shakespeare commemoration, Renaissance education, landscape art, portraiture, historical memory, and cosmopolitanism.

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Cultural Transfer; Artistic Exchange; European Travel; Grand Tour; Shakespeare Commemoration; Renaissance Education; Landscape Art; Portraiture; Historical Memory; Cosmopolitanism

The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832

1988-09-01

David E. Latané , Jon Klancher

The panorama: history of a mass medium

1998-04-01

Stephan Oettermann , Deborah Lucas Schneider

The significance of panorama painting in the nineteenth century is frequently cited in contemporary debates about visuality and the emergence of the modern spectator. Stephan Oettermann's The Panorama is the … The significance of panorama painting in the nineteenth century is frequently cited in contemporary debates about visuality and the emergence of the modern spectator. Stephan Oettermann's The Panorama is the first major historical study to appear in English of the rich phenomenon of the panorama, one of the most influential forms of visual entertainment in the nineteenth century. In this richly illustrated book Oettermann gives readers a concrete sense of the structural and experiential reality of the panorama, and the many forms it took throughout Europe and North America--a crucial task given that very few of the original nineteenth-century panoramas survive. At the same time, he outlines the many ways in which these remarkable and often immense 360-degree images were part of a larger transformation of the status of the observer and of popular culture. Thus, the panorama is treated not only as a new kind of image but also as an architectural and informational component of the new urban spaces and media networks.

The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare

1974-01-01

Joanna E. Rapf , John Barrell , John Clare +2 more

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introductory note 1. The idea of landscape in the eighteenth century 2. The landscape of agricultural improvement 3. The sense of place in the poetry of … List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introductory note 1. The idea of landscape in the eighteenth century 2. The landscape of agricultural improvement 3. The sense of place in the poetry of John Clare Appendix: John Clare and the enclosure of Helpston Notes Bibliography Index.

The Consumption of culture, 1600-1800: image, object, text

1997-01-01

Ann Bermingham , John Brewer

Part IV The social order: culture high and low 18 "The most polite age Part IV The social order: culture high and low 18 "The most polite age

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Studies in the History of the Renaissance

2010-02-11

Walter Pater

‘Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.’ In Studies in the History … ‘Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.’ In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic’s aesthetic responses. At the same time, reclaiming the Hellenism that he saw as the most characteristic aspect of the Renaissance, he implicitly celebrated homoerotic friendship. Pater’s infamous ‘Conclusion’, which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces the text of the first edition, recapturing its initial impact, and the Introduction celebrates its doomed attempt to stand out against the processes of industrialization.

A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840

2008-11-01

Howard Colvin

Appendices: some buildings erected before 1840 to the design of the Victorian architects not included in this dictionary names included in A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840, but excluded … Appendices: some buildings erected before 1840 to the design of the Victorian architects not included in this dictionary names included in A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840, but excluded from the present work public offices held by architects 1600-1840.

Back in style: reworking audience design

2002-01-03

Allan Bell

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Transparent vision

1996-12-12

Charles Goodwin

Landscape and Ideology. The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860.

1987-01-01

Michael Rosenthal , Ann Bermingham

In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Bermingham explores the complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory relationship between English landscape painting and the socio-economic changes that accompanied enclosure and the Industrial Revolution. In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Bermingham explores the complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory relationship between English landscape painting and the socio-economic changes that accompanied enclosure and the Industrial Revolution.

The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray

1959-06-01

Alan D. McKillop

Other| June 01 1959 The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray Jean H. Hagstrum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. xxii … Other| June 01 1959 The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray Jean H. Hagstrum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. xxii + 337. 32 plates. $7.50. Alan D. McKillop Alan D. McKillop Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (2): 198–199. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-20-2-198 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alan D. McKillop; The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray. Modern Language Quarterly 1 June 1959; 20 (2): 198–199. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-20-2-198 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsModern Language Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press1959 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End

2001-02-01

Lori Loeb , Erika Rappaport

In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks … In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged and discouraged women's enjoyment of public life and particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- and upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women's magazines, clubs, teashops, restaurants, and the theater as interwoven sites of consumption, Shopping for Pleasure uncovers how a new female urban culture emerged before and after the turn of the twentieth century.Moving beyond the question of whether shopping promoted or limited women's freedom, the author draws on diverse sources to explore how business practices, legal decisions, and cultural changes affected women in the market. In particular, she focuses on how and why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban woman, in some cases defining themselves as instrumental to civic improvement and women's emancipation. Rappaport also considers such influences as merchandizing strategies, credit policies, changes in public transportation, feminism, and the financial balance of power within the home. Shopping for Pleasure is thus both a social and cultural history of the West End, but on a broader scale it reveals the essential interplay between the rise of consumer society, the birth of modern femininity, and the making of contemporary London.

The Sublime

1996-08-15

Andrew Ashfield , Peter de Bolla

This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of … This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a number of fields - literary criticism, empirical psychology, political economy, connoisseurship, landscape design and aesthetics, painting and the fine arts, and moral philosophy - and has continued to animate aesthetic and theoretical debates to this day. However, the unavailability of many of the crucial texts of the founding tradition has resulted in a conception of the Sublime often limited to the definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions.

The gift in sixteenth-century France

2001-04-01

Natalie Zemon Davis

In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France. From the King's bounty to the beggar's alms, from the lavish feasting and … In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France. From the King's bounty to the beggar's alms, from the lavish feasting and display of civic dignitaries to the humble tokens exchanged by peasant bride and groom, the giving and receiving of gifts - then, as now - held tremendous significance.

The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display

2001-02-01

David Vincent , Jeffrey Auerbach

This illustrated account reveals how the exhibition was conceived and planned, why it was a success, what it meant to the millions of visitors, challenges the common view that it … This illustrated account reveals how the exhibition was conceived and planned, why it was a success, what it meant to the millions of visitors, challenges the common view that it symbolised peace, progress, prosperity and the emergence of an industrial middle class, and contributes to our broader understanding of modern national identities.

Society and Culture in Early Modern France

1969-12-31

Natalie Zemon Davis , J. Michael Hayden

Unfortunately, every one of the latter qualities listed in Segar may be found, three hundred years earlier, in Lull.Apart from jargon about "social structure," clichés about the "gentry," and various … Unfortunately, every one of the latter qualities listed in Segar may be found, three hundred years earlier, in Lull.Apart from jargon about "social structure," clichés about the "gentry," and various historical commonplaces, the reader will find merely short summaries of a limited selection of primary sources, several of which have been published in such "not readily available" collections as the Early English Text Society.Despite Uhlig's work, there is certainly room for a book on the subject proposed in Mirrors of Courtesy.Sadly, Mirrors of Courtesy

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DEFINING ART HISTORICALLY

1979-01-01

Jerrold Levinson

Journal Article DEFINING ART HISTORICALLY Get access Jerrold Levinson Jerrold Levinson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 19, … Journal Article DEFINING ART HISTORICALLY Get access Jerrold Levinson Jerrold Levinson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 19, Issue 3, 1979, Pages 232–250, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/19.3.232 Published: 01 July 1979

Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs, 1851-1939

1989-09-01

John Tomsich , Paul Greenhalgh

Journal Article Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs, 1851–1939. By Paul Greenhalgh. (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1988. xii + 245 pp. $49.95.) Get access John … Journal Article Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs, 1851–1939. By Paul Greenhalgh. (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1988. xii + 245 pp. $49.95.) Get access John Tomsich John Tomsich Reed College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 605–606, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908039 Published: 01 September 1989

Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice 1500-1800

1991-12-01

Stephen Bann , Krzysztof Pomian

The collection - between the visible and the invisible the age of curiosity collections in Venetia in the heyday of curiosity medals/shells erudition/philosophy dealers, connoisseurs and enthusiasts in 18th-century Paris … The collection - between the visible and the invisible the age of curiosity collections in Venetia in the heyday of curiosity medals/shells erudition/philosophy dealers, connoisseurs and enthusiasts in 18th-century Paris Maffei and Caylus collectors, naturalists and antiquarians in the Venetia Republic of the 18th century private collections, public museums.

The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800

1990-01-01

Stephanie Ross , Malcolm Andrews

"The heart and stomach of a king": Elizabeth I and the politics of sex and power

1994-12-01

Carole Levin

Chosen as one of the ten best academic books of the 1990s by Lingua Franca readers may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the … Chosen as one of the ten best academic books of the 1990s by Lingua Franca readers may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.-Elizabeth I Whether this sentence is an accurate transcription of Elizabeth's speech at Tilbury in 1588, it does characterize some of the struggles, contradictions, and cultural anxieties that dominated the collective consciousness of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In The Heart and Stomach of a King, Carole Levin explores contemporary representations of the unmarried, childless Elizabeth and focuses on the ways in which members of her court, foreign ambassadors, and a motley-and sometimes delusional-collection of subjects responded to her. Throughout, Levin's purpose is to explore how gender constructions, role expectations, and beliefs about sexuality influenced both Elizabeth's self-presentation and others' perceptions of her as a female, and Protestant, ruler.

Images of Love and Religion: Queen Henrietta Maria and Court Entertainments

1991-01-01

Sydney Anglo , Erica Veevers

The Queen's fashions the tone of court drama the Queen's religion the Queen's masques religious ceremony and the masques love and religion. The Queen's fashions the tone of court drama the Queen's religion the Queen's masques religious ceremony and the masques love and religion.

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

1986-12-01

Robert M. Isherwood , Thomas E. Crow

Describes how eighteenth century open Salon exhibitions by the French Academy encouraged the public view and evaluate art, and explains the influence of this public opinion on the painters of … Describes how eighteenth century open Salon exhibitions by the French Academy encouraged the public view and evaluate art, and explains the influence of this public opinion on the painters of the day.

An Introduction to Thomas Browne (1605–1682) and His Connections with Winchester College

1998-05-01

Harvey White

James Douglas of the Pouch and his Pupil William Hunter

1965-04-01

Peter L. Williams

Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World

1966-07-01

Raymonde Moulin , Harrison C. White , Cynthia A. White

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History

1996-01-01

William Wyckoff , Dolores Hayden

The Victorian City: Images and Realities

1974-06-01

Gareth Stedman Jones , H. J. Dyos , Michael Wolff

The Elizabethan World Picture

1944-01-01

Herbert John Clifford Grierson , E. M. W. Tillyard

Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety.

1993-01-01

Catherine Belsey , Marjorie Garber

Journal Article Marjorie Garber. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Get access Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. By Marjorie Garber. New York and London: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xiv + … Journal Article Marjorie Garber. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Get access Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. By Marjorie Garber. New York and London: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xiv + 443. Illus. $35.00 cloth. Catherine Belsey Catherine Belsey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 3, Fall 1993, Pages 363–364, https://doi.org/10.2307/2871424 Published: 01 October 1993

Territorial ambitions and the gardens of Versailles

1998-04-01

The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Picturesque in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetic Theory

1958-12-01

Alexander Sesonske , Walter J. Hipple

Early Netherlandish Painting

2019-04-11

Erwin Panofsky

The Works of Sir Thomas Malory

1955-01-01

Donald C. Baker , Thomas Malory , Eugène Vinaver

The Gender of the Gift

2019-07-24

Marilyn Strathern

The Exhibitionary Complex

2019-07-23

Tony Bennett

This chapter examines the formation of the exhibitionary complex. It focuses on the Gramscian perspective of the ethical and educative function of the modern state to account for the relations … This chapter examines the formation of the exhibitionary complex. It focuses on the Gramscian perspective of the ethical and educative function of the modern state to account for the relations of this complex to the development of the bourgeois democratic polity. The South Kensington Museum thus marked a significant turning point in the development of British museum policy in clearly enunciating the principles of the modern museum conceived as an instrument of public education. It provided the axis around which London's museum complex was to develop throughout the rest of the century and exerted a strong influence on the development of museums in the provincial cities and towns. The space of representation constituted by the exhibitionary complex was shaped by the relations between arrays of new disciplines: history, art history, archaeology, geology, biology, and anthropology. The space of representation constituted in the relations between the disciplinary knowledges deployed within the exhibitionary complex.

Sentiment and sociability: the language of feeling in the eighteenth century

1989-04-01

Gender and Genius

1989-01-01

Christine Battersby

<JATS1:p>During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, women were blamed for having too much passion, imagination, and sexual appetite. By the late eighteen century, however, these qualities had been valued … <JATS1:p>During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, women were blamed for having too much passion, imagination, and sexual appetite. By the late eighteen century, however, these qualities had been valued and appropriate for male artists. As new and old concepts of woman and genius clashed, there evolved a rhetoric of sexual apartheid which today still affects our perceptions of cultural achievement.</JATS1:p>

Imagining the king’s Death

2000-03-16

John Barrell

Abstract It is high treason in British law to 'imagine' the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining … Abstract It is high treason in British law to 'imagine' the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a 'modern' form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new, an imaginary, a 'figurative' treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inescapable.

The Renaissance

1980-12-31

Walter Pater

The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published … The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variations in other editions, from the early magazine versions to the Library Edition of 1910. Mr. Hill provides a full set of critical and explanatory notes on each of Pater's essays; headnotes outlining the story of its composition, publication, and reception; and an essay on the history of the book as a whole. Students of Pater and the Aesthetic Movement in England will find this new, annotated edition indispensable.

News from Nowhere : and Other Writings

1993-01-01

William Morris , Clive Wilmer

Part 1 Romance: the story of the unknown Church a King's lesson two extracts from A Dream of John Ball from Nowhere. Part 2 Lectures: the lesser arts some hints … Part 1 Romance: the story of the unknown Church a King's lesson two extracts from A Dream of John Ball from Nowhere. Part 2 Lectures: the lesser arts some hints on pattern-designing useful work versus useless toil the hopes of civilization. Part 3 Occasional prose: Looking Backward - a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy under an elm-tree, or, thoughts in the countryside preface in The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More how I became a socialist a note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press. Part 4 Letters: [the Eastern question]: letter to the Daily News [anti-scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum [St Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily News.

The Picturesque, Studies in a Point of View.

1929-02-01

Betty Allen , Christopher Hussey

Published in 1967: When first published forty years ago, this now well-known study was regarded as something of a pioneering venture in the field of visual romanticism. Despite susbsequent works … Published in 1967: When first published forty years ago, this now well-known study was regarded as something of a pioneering venture in the field of visual romanticism. Despite susbsequent works on the various aspects of this subject, The Picturesque has always remained the most informative and illuminating historical introduction to the study of visual values as reflected in English literature, painting and lanscaping at the turn of the eighteeth and nineteenth centuries.

The invention of art: a cultural history

2002-04-01

Larry Shiner

With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a … With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention - that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long 18th century.

Spaces of hospitality in Copenhagen in the Age of the Enlightenment

2025-06-24

Anni Greve | Routledge eBooks

The Rediscovery of a Portrait Listed in Hendrik van Limborch’s Rijksmuseum Notebook

2025-06-17

Wayne Franits | The Rijksmuseum Bulletin

In 1997, Guido Jansen published an essay in the Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum that explored a notebook kept by Hendrik van Limborch (1681-1759), an early eighteenth-century Dutch history painter and … In 1997, Guido Jansen published an essay in the Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum that explored a notebook kept by Hendrik van Limborch (1681-1759), an early eighteenth-century Dutch history painter and portraitist active in The Hague. In March 2021, twenty-four years after Jansen’s essay was published, a Parisian auction featured one of Van Limborch’s portraits of a female sitter, dated 1711. By consulting the painter’s notebook entries for the year 1711 in combination with archival references, the author is able to identify the sitter of this particular portrait. It represents The Hague resident, Maria Adriana van der Heim, daughter of the financial comptroller for the province of Holland. Her husband, Willem Sluijsken, whose name appears directly above hers in van Limborch’s entry, likewise enjoyed a distinguished legal and financial career. Both sitters exemplify the elite status of sitters whom Jansen describes as the painter’s customary clientele.

Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution

2025-06-16

Sergio España-Chamorro , María del Carmen Moreno Escobar | Routledge eBooks

Inventing Photography – William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library

2025-06-13

Anthony Hamber | History of Photography

The ‘Character’ of Cloe

2025-06-11

Norman Ault | Routledge eBooks

Bianca Laura Saibante and the use of Semiramis. A case study on the reception of Antiquity in the Italian debates on women in the eighteenth century

2025-06-10

Michaela Oberhuber | Arenal Revista de historia de las mujeres

For centuries, the use of exempla of ancient women accompanied the discussion of the Querelle des femmes. At times, this practice has been seen as a purely static reproduction of … For centuries, the use of exempla of ancient women accompanied the discussion of the Querelle des femmes. At times, this practice has been seen as a purely static reproduction of the same topoi, and its innovative power and originality have been strongly relativized. This article aims to test this thesis by analysing the case study of the Italian writer Bianca Laura Saibante (1723-1797), paying attention to nuances and details in her depiction of ancient women. To this end, theanalysis focuses on one of a number of ancient women Saibante included in her writings on the female question, namely the Babylonian ruler Semiramis. Mainfocuses are the narrative elements of Semiramis’ life that she highlighted, and the way she functionalized them. Comparison with other representations of the Babylonian queen in writings from a broad context relevant to Saibante serves to identify “small differences” and particularities in her Semiramis’ treatment, showing the dynamic character of the reception of Antiquity and its functionalisation for contemporary gender debates.

Madame Catharina Josepha Pratten and Others

2025-06-09

| Cambridge University Press eBooks

Erfolgreiche Porträtmalerin in Deutschland und Europa 1900–1903

2025-06-02

| De Gruyter eBooks

:Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie-Antoinette

2025-06-01

Gary Kates | The Journal of Modern History

The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder (c. 1613–15): Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

2025-06-01

Anne Puetz , Sarah Walsh | Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Elizabeth, a Vial Cap Mosaic

2025-05-30

Julia Baskin McKillen | Anesthesia & Analgesia

The More–Morton connection: how Thomas More came to be at Lambeth Palace

2025-05-29

Joanne Paul | Moreana

“Crepe de Soie with Tunic of Chiffon”: Stitching Together the History of L.M. Montgomery’s Wedding Attire

2025-05-28

Deborah Quaile | Journal of L M Montgomery Studies

Before L.M. Montgomery married, she had serious shopping to undertake, choosing fabrics, styles, and embellishments for her Edwardian wedding trousseau, including a stunning silk gown adorned with crystal beadwork. Montgomery’s … Before L.M. Montgomery married, she had serious shopping to undertake, choosing fabrics, styles, and embellishments for her Edwardian wedding trousseau, including a stunning silk gown adorned with crystal beadwork. Montgomery’s elaborate wedding plans indicated her new wealth, her growing self-confidence in her place in literary society, and an indulgence in fashions she loved.

2. Theorizing Back-Translation: From Antoine Berman on Retranslation to the Three Layers of The Monk by Lewis, Artaud, and Phillips

2025-05-28

Véronique Lane | Edinburgh University Press eBooks

8. The Arts

2025-05-28

Reynold K. W. Tsang | Hong Kong University Press eBooks

British Portrait Miniatures From the Thomson Collection. By SusanSloman. London: Ad Ilissvm. 2023. 312 p. £80 (hb). ISBN 978‐1‐915401‐12‐0.

2025-05-28

Isabella Mann | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Title Pending 1765

2025-05-28

“Your Most Obedient and Faithful Servant”: Peregrine Tyam and the Representation of Black Sitters in Early Modern British Portraiture

2025-05-28

Lee Hannah | British Art Studies

Examines how documentary sources provide insight into the identity, voice, and experiences of a Black sitter in an early modern British portrait. Examines how documentary sources provide insight into the identity, voice, and experiences of a Black sitter in an early modern British portrait.

Freebury-Jones, Darren. Reading Robert Greene. Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival. New York: Routledge, 2022 (= Routledge Studies in Shakespeare). 217 pp.

2025-05-26

Matt Carter | Kritikon Litterarum

Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Still-Life Painting

2025-05-26

Julie Berger Hochstrasser

Still life did not come into its own as an independent genre of European painting until the seventeenth century, when The Netherlands enjoyed its most abundant flowering. The Protestant Reformation’s … Still life did not come into its own as an independent genre of European painting until the seventeenth century, when The Netherlands enjoyed its most abundant flowering. The Protestant Reformation’s impact undercutting Catholic church patronage spurred the development of secular subjects in the nascent Dutch Republic, where, in the first open art market, concurrent with the rise of landscape and genre (scenes of daily life) painting, still life enjoyed wide popularity and significant valuation that defied its lowly status in Italianate art theory. Some Haarlem painters specialized early on in tabletop “banquet” and “breakfast” pieces (van Schooten, van Dijck, then Claesz and Heda), while flower painting became popular around Middelburg (the Bosschaerts, van der Ast); by mid-century, Amsterdam hosted a perfect storm of painters, with still-life masters producing opulent displays later dubbed pronkstilleven (Kalf, van Aelst). Other artists focused on nature subjects both at home (Marseus, Mignon), and abroad (Eckhout, Merian), or became fascinated with the visual deceptions of trompe l’oeil (Hoogstraten, Gijsbrechts). Many subgenres of still life emerged, featuring game (the Weenixes), fish (van Beyeren), or the sobering reminders of death called vanitas (Steenwijck), while flower painting continued throughout the century and into the next (Ruysch, van Huysum). Yet in the southern Netherlands, too, though remaining under Spanish Catholic rule, still life evolved, there out of 16th-century Antwerp kitchen and market scenes (Aertsen, Beuckelaer), so that Flemish painters developed larger, more complex scenes rich with market produce (Snyders) and imposing hunting pieces (Fyt). Not all Flemish painters worked large however: Jan “Velvet” Brueghel crafted tiny, precious flower pieces, while Clara Peeters’s small panels were seminal for many types of still life in both north and south. Jan Davidsz de Heem also traversed this border: born in Dutch Utrecht but active also in Flemish Antwerp, he blended Dutch detail with Flemish grandiloquence to become by many estimates the premier still-life master of his time. “Still-standing things” had been represented in other kinds of pictures before still-life proper, of course: often foodstuffs and other objects in religious paintings. Consequently, some interpreters see moralizing symbolism lingering in Netherlandish still life, though debates over meaning long consumed the literature. Emphasis on Dutch art’s descriptive interests challenged this view, while subsequent investigations have probed socioeconomic and phenomenological questions. Most scholars today agree on more multivalent readings of Dutch and Flemish still life alike. And come into their own they have, as copious literature attests!

Camille Bergeaud’nun Fransa Kültür Ataşeliği Döneminde Türk Sanatına Katkıları ve Dönemin Başlıca Sergi Mekânı Olarak İstanbul Fransız Konsolosluğu

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Aygen Demiriz

Bringing Italy into Modernity

2025-05-22

Luca Somigli

Abstract This essay considers how the Futurist movement produced a new form of engagement between artists and their audience that challenged the privileged status of art in Western culture and … Abstract This essay considers how the Futurist movement produced a new form of engagement between artists and their audience that challenged the privileged status of art in Western culture and influenced the strategies through which avant-garde movements situated themselves within the field of cultural production. First, it traces the evolution of Futurism founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti from a fairly traditional poet in the symbolist mold to the proponent of a brash and aggressive form of artistic production that demanded a direct engagement on the part of the reader. A crucial aspect of this transition was Marinetti’s adoption of strategies derived from the bourgeoning advertising industry that turned Futurism into a “brand” with an international reach. Taking British modernism as a case study, the chapter then addresses how the horizon of expectations produced by the spread and reception of Futurism throughout Europe conditioned the way in which various artists and movements—here, more specifically, Harold Munro, Ezra Pound and Imagism, and Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism—sought to legitimate their literary and artistic projects, even when they were in direct opposition to those of Marinetti and his Futurist companions.

Xavier Gendre, Le prince aux xvi e et xvii e siècles: du prince miroir au prince souverain , Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024, 374 p., ISBN 978-2-406-17376-2

2025-05-22

Damien Fontvieille | Réforme Humanisme Renaissance

Sites of Literary Memory

2025-05-22

Paolo Bartoloni , Michela Dianetti

Abstract Vision, and the attendant landscape imprinted in the collective memory about Italy, is an ideal entry point to discuss the notion of sites of literary memory. This includes, for … Abstract Vision, and the attendant landscape imprinted in the collective memory about Italy, is an ideal entry point to discuss the notion of sites of literary memory. This includes, for instance, the vision that has developed over the years in Italy and abroad about iconic cities and the ways they have been catalogued according to aesthetic categories. If geographical places offer a tangible anchor on which emotional values can be secured, they can also speak of peculiar aesthetic and ethical traits that are instructively traceable back to regional characteristics that have ultimately informed Italy’s perception domestically and internationally. For the purpose of this essay, we have chosen to focus on three categories—order, disorder/mystery, and the interstice—and pair them with three geographical sites—Florence, Rome, and Trieste. We argue that these sites and categories have produced a memory of things Italian that persists and informs the understanding of Italian identity and the image that Italy has fashioned for itself and others. By comparing and contrasting these three categories and sites, the intention is not only to provide an overview of Italian literary trends, and of the ways in which these trends have been received and consumed globally, but also to offer strategies for a redefinition of Italian literature while discussing the value and impact that literature can have in future discourses on the humanities.