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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Lucy Powell This article analyzes two paintings by Jakob Bogdani, of the exotic aviaries of Admiral Churchill at Little Park, Windsor, between 1708 and 1710. In it, I argue that by following Bodgani's development from a painter of traditional still lifes to an innovative painter of exotic birds, we...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Review Essay
Old New Media:
Print, Paint, and the Early Eighteenth-Century
Media Revolution
Rachael Scarborough King
University of California at Santa Barbara
Dror Wahrman. Mr. Collier’s Letter Racks...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Ronald Paulson Einberg Elizabeth , ed. William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings ( New Haven : Yale Univ. , 2017 ). Pp. 432. 257 color ills. 264 figs. $150 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay
Hogarth’s Paintings...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Amanda Strasik In 1811, Pierre‐Paul Prud'hon painted an allegorical portrait of the infant Napoleon II for Empress Marie‐Louise, Napoleon's second wife and the child's mother, that was exhibited publicly at the Paris Salon the following year. Prud'hon's painting is distinctive because it lacks...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2015
... revealing differences between the two cultures. To illuminate that rich yet liminal cultural space in Macartney’s narrative, I draw on a parallel moment in Sino-British cultural relations in the years leading up to the Opium wars—George Chinnery’s painting, Rev. Morrison Translating the Bible in to Chinese...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... culture of theatrical celebrity. While paintings and engraved prints of actors mostly peddled a mode of celebrity that was sustained by audience applause within the theater walls, Bell’s illustrations created a parallel visibility for the performers outside the theater, which was only tenuously...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2016
... a gendered hierarchy to the arts: poetry is masculinized and painting feminized; a masculine speaker describes a feminine object. Founded exclusively on the work of male poets, this account has not yet considered how eighteenth-century female poets contributed to this tradition. Through her ekphrastic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... correspondence: “Mr Bull is honouring me, at least my Anecdotes of Painting, exceedingly. He has let every page into a pompous sheet, and is adding every print of portrait, building, etc., that I mention and that he can get, and specimens of all our engravers. It will make eight magnificent folios, and be a most...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
... are commonly used to contribute to atmospheres of tension and disquiet. Maria employs animals ironically, using moments of seemingly uncanny animal presence to expose how both humans and animals are oppressed by the power structures that govern their lives. Wollstonecraft paints a brutal picture of late...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
...; and third, that many contemporary viewers became adept at negotiating these networks and were motivated to do so by the larger cultural demands that portraiture served. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 portrait portraiture sculpture painting print...
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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 1. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. The freestanding glass walls in the center of the room enabled viewers to examine both front and back of the paper drafts. One wall (to the left) displays a painting on silk of Lee Sam
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 104–109.
Published: 01 April 2013
... paint-
ing. Within the expansive exhibition and catalog, I sometimes regretted not
seeing the more modest number of figures in Zoffany’s paintings before he
arrived in England in 1760. But this was Zoffany’s way of becoming suffi-
ciently “English” (he was already German) to attract the royal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
... month. Barchas had been
working with a team of programmers and student research assistants at the
University of Texas to create an interactive “walk-through” website that
reproduces the experience of visiting a three-room exhibition of 141 paint-
ings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an exhibit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
... women, at their most imposing, full-length and high
on the wall, were often painted in celebration of engagement: beautiful
and affiliated, they fantasize a female subjectivity that belonged equally to
father and husband. The courtesan portraits, on the other hand, are rarely...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 April 2007
... Conservation
Department on the restoration of the picture (95 – 106). Many of Lancret’s most
famous paintings are reproduced in dazzling color, and they are eff ectively
coordinated with the text, but Holmes does not analyze them.
As Holmes points out, Nicolas Lancret is relatively unknown...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
...
about face painting, long understood to be a woman’s art. The first section
of this essay considers attacks on and defenses of cosmetics, all of which
point to the complicated relation of face painting to issues such as social
order, women’s roles, and the value...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
... to
be Avoided by Some & Imitated by Others if they Please.1
On 15 May 1809, William Blake issued an advertisement for his forthcom-
ing exhibition, to be held above his brother’s hosiery shop in Broad Street,
London. At an unknown date during the summer, he opened the display
of his paintings along...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 1. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. The freestanding glass walls in the center of the room enabled viewers to examine both front and back of the paper drafts. One wall (to the left) displays a painting on silk of Lee Sam...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 106–113.
Published: 01 April 2010
... for British
Art in 1968.
Joseph Wright (1734 – 97) came from Derby and earned contemporary
admiration for both his evocative “candlelight” subject paintings and his dis-
tinguished portraits. In time, he has become one of the most admired and fas-
cinating British artists of the eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of the instability of the printed book and viewed knowledge as shaped through curation of content rather than permanence of form. 35. Folger, X.d.437 (3). 36. Folger, X.d.437 (2). 37. William Aglionby, Painting Illustrated in Three Diallogues (London: John Gain, 1685). 38. Franciscus...
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