The Rediscovery of Greece : Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era (Introduction by Sir Steven Runciman)

by: Tsigakou, F.-M.

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The rediscovery of Greece : travellers and painters of the romantic era

Author:Fani-Maria Tsigakou

Summary:This book recreates the reality and myth of Greece as perceived, reflected and shaped by nineteenth-century artists, architects, archeologists and writers from England, France, Germany and Italy who made their way to Greece, exploring and recording the temples and other ancient sites, the landscape and also the people of the time, their customs and costumes. Athens, Delphi and Parnassus, Olympia and Mycenae, and many other sites and localities redolent of history are shown in exquisite oils, watercolors and drawings made on the spot. Numerous quotations from contemporary descriptions, diaries and letters are included, as are a host of more fanciful works by artists who stayed at home, but were stirred by the views and accounts brought back and by that great event reverberating throughout Europe: the reclaiming by the Greeks of their independence

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Subjects:
1700-1899
Art européen 19e siècle
Art, European 19th century
Beeldende kunsten
Greece
Greece Description and travel
Greece History War of Independence, 1821-1829 Influence
Grèce Descriptions et voyages
Grèce Histoire 1821-1829 (Guerre de l'Indépendance) Influence
Grèce dans l'art
Griekse oudheid
History
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Kunstschilders
Painting, European
Peinture européenne
Philhellenism
Philhellénisme
Receptie
Reizigers
Romanticism
Romanticism in art
Romantiek
Romantisme
Romantisme dans l'art
Travel
Travelers
Travelers Greece 18th century
Travelers Greece 19th century
Voyageurs Grèce 18e siècle
Voyageurs Grèce 19e siècle
War of Independence (Greece : 1821-1829)
romanticism (form of expression)

The Rediscovery of Greece : Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era (Introduction by Sir Steven Runciman)

by: Tsigakou, F.-M.

• ISBN-13: 9780500233368 / 978-0-500-23336-8
• ISBN-03: 0500233365 / 0-500-23336-5
• Thames and Hudson, London, 1981

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock