Victorian Painting

Victorian Painting
ISBN-10
050020263X
ISBN-13
9780500202630
Series
Victorian Painting
Category
Art
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
1993-01-01
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Author
Julian Treuherz

Description

The range of artistic production in the Victorian ageincluded history painting; topographical landscapes of the Continentand the Middle East; Landseer's royal portraits and heroic animalpictures; Pre-Raphaelite painting with its combined naturalism andsymbolism; Leighton's classical mythologies; and Frith's populardepictions of the leisured middle classes. Amid this great variety ofstyles and emphasis, influential critics such as Ruskin dictated thatart should be morally uplifting, an orthodoxy challenged by Whistler,Sickert, Steer and their fellows among the "London Impressionists".

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