Format:
XI, 708 Seiten
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zahlreiche Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780300162783
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0300162782
Content:
Universally recognised as a brilliant and gifted eighteenth-century artist, Zoffany was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. He has remained without a detailed study of his life and works owing to the fascinating and complex vicissitudes of his career, now established from widely scattered sources. Starting out as a late-baroque painter at a German princely court, he moved to London in 1760 and soon became a leading portraitist. A loyal patron was the great actor David Garrick through whom Zoffany became admired as the unrivalled interpreter of the Georgian stage. The delightful inventions of his conversation pieces proved, then as now, fashionably successful images of private lives and led to his swift rise into the royal patronage of George III and Queen Charlotte. Zoffany set foot in so many worlds that their contrast alone gives a constantly changing interest to the history of his life and work
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Zoffany, John 1733-1810
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Zoffany, John 1733-1810
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Bildband
Author information:
Zoffany, John 1733-1810
