THE PROTRACTED PORTRAIT OF A LADY: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CARICATURE PORTRAIT NEGOTIATIONS

Known, among others, as a “culture of appearances” (Roche 1989), the eighteenth century is a time of accelerated individual comfort and the age of luxury par excellence, combining “leisure and pleasure” (Margetson 1970). As the London of the day goes French, in an effect of “fearful symmetry” to the...

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Main Author: Mihaela Irimia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bucharest University Press 2022-02-01
Series:University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
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Online Access:http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mihaelairimia.pdf