Gainsborough
Koenemann · Hardcover · July 1, 2019
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great English portrait and landscape painters of the eighteenth century.
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- Who it’s for
- A look at Gainsborough’s portraits, landscapes, emotional manner, and place in eighteenth-century English art.
- Themes
- Eighteenth-century English painting, Emotion-led artistic style, Artistic criticism and recognition
- Genres
- Artist Monographs, Artists' Lives, Portraits
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Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great English portrait and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. His modern manner of painting based on emotions was criticized by contemporaries such as Joshua Reynolds, but it gave Gainsborough a special position in an art world dominated by academic rigor and earned him the greatest appreciation from English society.
Portraits and Landscapes
A look at Gainsborough’s portraits, landscapes, emotional manner, and place in eighteenth-century English art.
Come here for
- Gainsborough’s portrait painting
- His landscape painting
Expect
- Contemporary criticism of his emotional manner
- His standing in English society
Where it sits
| Artists' Lives | 76% |
|---|---|
| Artist Monographs | 46% |
| Portraits | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- European Art
- Romanticism Art History
- Artist Monographs
- Authors
- Ruth Dangelmaier
- Publisher
- Koenemann
- Published
- July 1, 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Eighteenth-century English painting · Emotion-led artistic style · Artistic criticism and recognition
- Reading lane
- European Art