HOGARTH, REYNOLDS, TURNER / BRITISH PAINTING AND THE RISE OF MODERNITY

Here, historical and cultural analyses of Britain, and of London in particular, are combined with an examination of how a new and pe culiarly native figurative language was forged alongside the continental tradition, manifesting itself in a dynamic quest that embra ced and developed the classical tradition while attempting to break free of it. The resulting debate shaped the growth of the variou s pictorial genres in which the British school evolved a distinct artistic identity that was to be recognized in the nineteenth cent ury, exp...[Read more]