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Apostles of Good Taste? The use and perception of plaster casts in the Enlightenment
Published 2021-12-01“…By looking at reactions to casts and cast collections by authors such as Goethe, Christian Gottlob Heyne, John Flaxman and others, this article analyses the complex relationship of notions of good taste on the one side and the perception of plaster casts on the other.…”
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Images écrites – images peintes. Intermédialité selon Dante : Divine Comédie, Inf. XVII
Published 2020-11-01“…The paper traces this long tradition on the basis of representative examples, such as John Flaxman’s as well as Pitt Koch’s illustrations or Salvador Dalí’s watercolours commenting on the Divine Comedy, Inferno XVII.…”
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How can I help thy Husband’s copying Me? Dante tra Blake, Füssli e Flaxman
Published 2020-10-01“…Non sempre è stata rivolta sufficiente attenzione al fatto che i tre più grandi interpreti figurativi della Commedia nell’Inghilterra tra Sette e Ottocento – Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825), John Flaxman (1755-1826) e William Blake (1757-1827) – fossero in stretto contatto tra loro e reciprocamente legati da un solido e durevole vincolo di amicizia. …”
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