The society portrait : painting, prestige and the pursuit of elegance / Gabriel Badea-Päun ; foreword by Richard Ormond.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2007.Description: 223 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 35 cmISBN:- 9780500238424 (hbk.) :
- 9780500238424
- 709.942 BAD
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 709.942 BAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 204996 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
Portrait: between reality and the ideal, truth and beauty -- Renaissance of a genre -- Splendors of the second empire -- Realism versus impressionism -- The belle eþpoque: portraiture at its zenith -- Decline of a genre.
With 217 illustrations, 182 of which are in colour, this book opens at the turn of the 19th century, when society portraiture was on the brink of a renaissance, and closes during its decline, as it struggled to evolve and survive in the post-war era.