The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)

The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) - Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

Old and new histories of art.Seeming restlessness of the nineteenth century.To recognise style in modern art, and to prove the logic of its evolution, the principles of judgment in the old art-histories are also to be employed for the new.The question is, what new element the age brought into the history of art, not what it borrowed eclectically from earlier ages The commencement of modern art in England.Two divisions of modern art since the sixteenth century.Classic and naturalistic schools.English succeed the Dutch in the seventeenth century.William Hogarth: his purpose and his inartistic methods.Sir Joshua Reynolds.Thomas Gainsborough.Comparison between them.Reynolds, an historical painter; Gainsborough, a painter of landscape.Pictures of Richard Wilson show the end of classical landscape.Those of Gainsborough, the beginning of paysage intime English influence upon the art of the Continent from the middle of the eighteenth century.Sturm-und-Drang period in literature.Rousseau.Goethes Werther.Schillers Robbers.Spain: Francis Goya, his pictures and etchings.France: Antoine Watteau frees himself from baroque influences, and directs the tendency of French art towards the Low Countries.Pastel: Maurice Latour, Rosalba Carriera, Liotard.Society painters: Lancrat, Pater.The decorative painters: Franois Lemoine, Franois Boucher, Fragonard.Society turns virtuous.Jean Greuze.Middle-class society and its depicter, Jean Baptiste Simon Chardin.Germany: Lessing frees the drama from the classical yoke of Boileau, and, following the English, produces in Minna the first domestic tragedy.Daniel Chodowiecki as the portrayer of the German middle class.Tischbein goes back to the national past.Posing disappears in portrait painting.Antoine Pesne.Anton Graff.Christian Lebrecht Vogel.Johann Edlinger.The revival of landscape.Rousseaus influence.English garden-style succeeds the French style.Disappearance of nature choisie in painting.Hubert Robert.Joseph Vernet.Salomon Gessner.Ludwig Hess.Philip Hackert.Johann Alexander Thiele.Antonio Canale.Bernardo Canaletto.Francesco Guardi.Don Petro Rodriguez de Miranda.Don Mariano Ramon Sanchez.The animal painters: Franois Casanova, Jean Louis de Marne, Jean Baptiste Oudry, Johann Elias Riedinger.An event in the history of art: in place of the prevailing Cinquecento and the sublime style of painting degraded at the close of the seventeenth century, a simple and sincere art succeeds throughout the whole of Europe.Return to what Drer and the Little Masters of the sixteenth century and the Dutch of the seventeenth century originated ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 43792
Author: Muther, Richard
Release Date: Sep 22, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English