World Of Art Series Victorian Painting

Julian Treuhers

Thames and Hudson

1993

1 páginas

2m

ISBN-13: 9780500202630

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".