The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Book

This book is the first to examine the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British artists portrayed the archaic past. Sam Smiles argues that ancient Britain was variously seen as a noble epoch of wisdom and patriotism and as a period of savagery and barbarism, and that these representations changed over time to suit current political fashions and changing ideas of national identity.Read More

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  • 0300058144
  • 9780300058147
  • S Smiles
  • 1 September 1994
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 262
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