Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By Nina Lübbren

This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting. Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-L on G r me, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories. Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode. Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152616857X
• ISBN13: 9781526168573
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.5"