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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787053103321

Autore

McCue Maureen

Titolo

British Romanticism and the reception of Italian old master art, 1793-1840 / / Maureen McCue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate Publishing Limited : , : Ashgate Publishing Company, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57028-9

1-317-17149-7

1-317-17148-9

1-4094-6833-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Studies in Art Historiography

Disciplina

820.9/145

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Romanticism - England

Art, Italian - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Attempting 'To Engraft Italian Art on English Nature'; 2 Connoisseurship; 3 Making Literature; 4 Samuel Rogers's Italy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian Old Master art by early nineteenth-century writers, McCue illuminates the important role these artworks played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism. She argues that they informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period's political, social and commercial realities.