An introduction to the paragone -- The archetype of beauty : Narcissus and the birth of the beau idéal -- Pygmalion and Galatea : the battle between iconophobes and iconodules -- Salomé versus Medusa
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Universität Marburg, Bibliothek Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte
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A II 415/15
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An introduction to the paragone -- The archetype of beauty : Narcissus and the birth of the beau idéal -- Pygmalion and Galatea : the battle between iconophobes and iconodules -- Salomé versus Medusa
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Routledge, New York
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Taylor & Francis Group, London
Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the...
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TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered primarily in the context of Renaissance art history, but in this book readers will see how the legacy of this humanistic competitive model survived into the late nineteenth century
