Modern Painters, Old Masters

The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War

Elizabeth Prettejohn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2017
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-22275-3 (ISBN)

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With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National Gallery in London, as well as the proliferation of widely available published reproductions, the art of the past became visible and accessible in Victorian England as never before. Inspired by the work of Sandro Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Diego Velázquez, and others, British artists elevated contemporary art to new heights through a creative process that emphasized imitation and emulation. Elizabeth Prettejohn analyzes the ways in which the Old Masters were interpreted by critics, curators, and scholars, and argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Covering the arc of Victorian art from the Pre-Raphaelites through to the early modernists, this volume traces the ways in which artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and William Orpen engaged with the art of the past and produced some of the greatest art of the later 19th century.

Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Elizabeth Prettejohn is professor of history of art at the University of York.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	130 color + 30 b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1179 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-300-22275-0 / 0300222750
ISBN-13	978-0-300-22275-3 / 9780300222753
Zustand	Neuware