Bibliograph

Dignity and decadence, Victorian art and the classical inheritance, Richard Jenkyns

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Dignity and decadence, Victorian art and the classical inheritance, Richard Jenkyns

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-347) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dignity and decadence

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

25768069

Responsibility statement

Richard Jenkyns

Sub title

Victorian art and the classical inheritance

Summary

Jenkyns turns our accepted notions of the Victorians upside down, presenting Ruskin as an admirer of Greek statuary, the Houses of Parliament as a classical rather than a Gothic composition, and Thomas Woolner, the only sculptor among the original pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, as a neo-Hellenic carver and poet

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