Victorian Painting

by Julian Treuherz

Book Overview

The range of artistic production in the Victorian age included history painting; topographical landscapes of the Continent and the Middle East; Landseer's royal portraits and heroic animal pictures; Pre-Raphaelite painting with its combined naturalism and symbolism; Leighton's classical mythologies; and Frith's popular depictions of the leisured middle classes. Amid this great variety of styles and emphasis, influential critics such as Ruskin dictated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050020263X
• ISBN13: 9780500202630
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.3"