"This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain. At the time, these were called 'histories'. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as 'history pai...

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Main Author:	Hamlett, Lydia (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:	Routledge research in art history Routledge research in art history
Subjects:	Mural painting and decoration, British / 17th century Mural painting and decoration, British / 18th century
Online Access:	UER01
Summary:	"This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain. At the time, these were called 'histories'. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as 'history painting' achieved the status of a sublime genre, any link with painted architectural interiors was lost. Whilst both genres contained historical figures and narratives, it was the ways of viewing them that differed. Lydia Hamlett emphasises the way that mural paintings were experienced by spectators within their architectural settings. New iconographical interpretations and theories of effect and affect are considered an important part of their wider historical, cultural and social contexts. This book is intended to be read primarily by specialists, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in new approaches to British art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9781315466170 1315466171 9781315466149 1315466147 9781315466156 1315466155 9781315466163 1315466163