The Elements of life : biography and portrait-painting in Stuart and Georgian England
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The Elements of life : biography and portrait-painting in Stuart and Georgian England
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
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Includes index
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Description
This study establishes the grounds of comparison between visual and verbal portraiture - from the arrival of Van Dyck to the publication of Boswell's "Life of Johnson". The text is grounded in modern theory devoted to the comparison of literature and painting and to the problems of representation. Among the writers considered are Izaak Walton, John Evelyn, John Aubrey, Roger North, Goldsmith, Johnson, Mrs Piozzi and Boswell; and of painters, Van Dyck, Lely, Samuel Cooper, Jonathan Richardson, Hogarth and Reynolds.
Table of Contents
- Representing historical character
- iconic biography - Izaak Walton and John Evelyn
- iconic pictures - Van Dyck and Stuart portraiture
- brief lives and miniatures - John Aubrey and Samuel Cooper
- double agents - Jonathan Richardson and Roger North
- Hogarth's dilemma
- biography at mid-century - acts of complicated virtue
- Reynolds and "the genius of life"
- Boswell's Flemish picture
- Gainsborough's butterfly.
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