Fine art

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Fine art (W100): The aesthetic representation in one medium of what is reality in another. Encompasses all artistic media.

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The Nocturne and the ‘Native Village’: contrasting Japonismes in late-Victorian London by Jonathan Parker	This article contrasts two manifestations of the late-Victorian fascination with Japonisme – James Whistler’s painting Nocturne in Blue and Silver...	Japonisme	view
Know thyself? Did Phrenology help William Powell Frith address middleclass Victorian crowd anxiety? by Jane de Beneducci	Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenology bust of circa 1850 has achieved a modern iconic status as an artefact that represents either a quackish...	phrenology, Victorian Culture	view
Between The Spheres: Breaking The Boundary Between Private And Public Spheres In Wilkie Collins’s The Woman In White And William Holman Hunt’s The Lady Of Shalott, Alison Westwood	The nineteenth-century notion of a public sphere for male-authored content and a private sphere for female-authored content made the female diary...	19th century, Gender, Sexuality	view
King Edward VI and the Pope and Elizabeth I: Drawing Parallels in Tudor Group Portraits and Texts, Chelsea Swales	For over fifty years, ‘King Edward VI and the Pope or An Allegory of the Reformation under Edward VI’ has posed a mystery. The anonymous painting...	Tudor, art history, Portraits, Text, Elizabeth I	view
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Taming the Goddess: Managing male fear and desire in late Victorian England: Astarte Syriaca (1877) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and She (1887) by H. Rider Haggard by Brian Holland	Fear and sexual desire have often gone hand in hand, but Victorian men were particularly prone to the affliction. Each of these...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-raphaelite, Victorian	view
Tipu Sultan's Slippers and Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match: Footwear, identity and violence in eighteenth-century India by Martin Moran	Following his defeat by the British in 1799, Tipu Sultan’s treasures were plundered and transported back to Britain, including a pair...	Clothing & fashions, Cultural Identity, Eighteenth Century	view
Pastoral perfection or tormented toil? contrasting views of rural labour in the second half of the nineteenth century, in works by Richard Jefferies and John Linnell by Catherine Usher	This article considers and contrasts the representations of the life of the agricultural labourer in the second half of the nineteenth century by...	Agriculture, Victorian Culture	view
Edouard Manet and George Meredith: Two Interpretations of ‘The Heroic in History’, Hannes Frey	The American Civil War challenged the political imagination of Victorian elites. Abolition emerged as a primary concern, yet other issues...	Victorian Culture, 19th century, American Civil War, naval history	view
The Female Artist in the mid-Victorian Period: Emily Mary Osborn’s Nameless and Friendless (1857) and the 1859 Petition to the Royal Academy, Adrienne McKenna	The 1857 painting by Emily Mary Osborn titled ‘Nameless and Friendless’ and the 1859 petition to the Royal Academy to provide tuition to female...	Victorian Culture, Gender, Art, 19th century	view

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