Modern painters, old masters : the art of imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War /

By:

Prettejohn, Elizabeth [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]Description: vii, 286 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300222753
0300222750

Subject(s): DDC classification:

759.942/09034 23

LOC classification:

ND467 .P74 2017

Summary: 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 Velazquez, 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks	ND467 .P74 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16055001050

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.

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