Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare in art / Jane Martineau et al.

Publication

London ; New York : Merrell ; London : Published in association with the Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Martineau, Jane
• Palazzo dei diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery

Description

256 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

'Shakespeare in Art' looks at the huge variety of painters who made Shakespeare's extremes of passion, his evocations of nature, his spirit world and his eternally familiar characters the subjects of their own work. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Western culture.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Influence > Exhibitions
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Exhibitions
• 1700-1899
• Art, Modern > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 19th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrera, Feb. 16-June 15, 2003, and Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, July 16-Oct. 19, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Shakespeare phenomenon / Jonathan Bate -- Shakespeare and the British print market 1700-1860 / David Alexander -- "Our divine Shakespeare fitly illustrated" : staging Shakespeare 1660-1900 / Christopher Baugh -- Shakespeare and music / John Warrack -- The early illustrators of Shakespeare / Brian Allen -- Shakespeare and the sublime / Maria Grazia Messina -- The Shakespeare galleries of John Boydell and James Woodmason / Robin Hamlyn -- Theatrical painting from Hogarth to Fuseli / Desmond Shawe-Taylor -- Shakespeare and romantic painting in Europe / Maria Grazia Messina --Bardolatry / Jane Martineau -- Shakespeare in Victorian art / John Christian.

ISBN

1858942292

OCLC

• 52565470
• SCSB-11659308

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library