Epic Landscapes : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor /

Epic Landscapes : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor /

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Author / Creator:	Sienkewicz, Julia A. author.
Imprint:	Newwark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2019. Virginia : Distributed by University of Virginia Press ©2019
Description:	285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.
Subject:	Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, -- 1764-1820. Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, -- 1764-1820. Landscapes in art -- 18th century. Watercolor painting -- 18th century. Landscapes in art. Watercolor painting.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12000080

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ISBN:	1644531593 9781644531594
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe's substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe's Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l'oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe's architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe's watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution.

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Call Number:	ND1839.L35 S54 2019
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