As a result of Napoleonrsquo;s campaigns in Italy; Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors; enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art; the imagination and the periodrsquo;s political; social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry; plays; novels; travel writing; exhibition catalogues; early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors; including Felicia Hemans; William Buchanan; Henry Sass; Pierce Egan; William Hazlitt; Percy Shelley; Lord Byron; Anna Jameson; Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats; while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural; historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers; Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An analyses of 31 Wallenberg memorials in 12 countriesBy SupporterThis book is the second of a planned series on the Holocaust and its context. Series editors are Olaf Jenson.University of Leicester. UK and Claus-Christian W.Szejnmann. Loughborough University. UK. The author of Heros Many Faces is Tanja Schult. The bookdescribes and analyses 31 public memorials to Raoul Wallenberg in 12 countries. The diversity of the artists approach to Wallenberg memorials runs the full range from portraits to abstraction. In every memorial. Schult takes the reader through a very detailed visit to each site as well as an overview of the artists intent and the history of the memorials development. The book is a must read for anyone who has an interest in public memorials or might be entering a competition to create one. Some background in art history would be helpful. but is not necessary. I know of no other book on the subject of public memorials as well written and as ambitious as this one. I highly recommend it.
