Title & Author:

Imagining Rome : British artists and Rome in the nineteenth century / edited by Michael Liversidge and Catharine Edwards.

Publication:

London : Merrell Holberton, 1996.

Description:

172 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition held at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 3 May - 23 June 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and index.
Essays. The roads to rome / Catharine Edwards ; "City of the soul" : English romantic travellers in Rome / Timothy Webb ; Rome portrayed : "to excite the sensibility, and to awaken the admiration of mankind" / M.J.H. Liversidge ; Recreating Rome in Victorian painting : from history to genre / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Catalogue I. Representing Rome / M.J.H. Liversidge -- Catalogue II. Recreating Rome / Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Summary:

Nineteenth-century Rome was a heady cocktail of erotic decadence mingled with imperial grandeur and inspired some of the finest works by British artists of Victorian era.

ISBN:

185894029X (cased)
9781858940298 (cased)
1858940303 (pbk.)
9781858940304 (pbk.)

Subject:

Painting, British 19th century Exhibitions.
Painting, British Exhibitions.
Painting, British Roman influences Exhibitions.
Peinture britannique Expositions.
Peinture britannique 19e siècle Expositions.
Rome dans l'art Expositions.
Peinture britannique Influence romaine Expositions.
21.02 history of painting.
21.22 history of drawing.
Painting, British
Schilderijen.
Tekeningen.
Inspiratie.
Rome In art Exhibitions.
Rome (Empire)
Paintings

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogues (form)

Added entries:

Liversidge, M. J. H.
Edwards, Catharine.
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109876
Call No.: ND1314.5.I5 (ID:96-B1605)
Status: Available