Between the Olympian and the Dionysian: Pagan Energy in Paintings by Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema

This article aims at examining the tension that characterizes some representations of Antiquity in the works of British painters of the 1860s-1890s as well as the critical reception of those works in contemporary periodicals and monographs. The artists who revived the subjects and forms of Antiquity...

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Main Author: Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2014-09-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/1507