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Victorian narrative paintings offer a unique insight into the 19th century. The plight of women, the affects of the class system, and the onslaught of industry are all forced upon the attention of the viewer. Within each picture there is a story to uncover, either optimistic, educational, or tragic. Hugely popular in the Victorian period, the paintings tell much about how the Victorians viewed themselves and those whose "transgressive" practices threatened...
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In his idealized yet deeply felt pastoral images, John Constable manifested a uniquely English identification with nature and rural life. This program, created from extensive Tate and National Gallery collections, explores both the aesthetic and subtly political aspects of Constable's work. Eschewing the approach of many art documentaries, the film presents detailed audio commentary from Tate curator Anne Lyles and art historians Michael Rosenthal...
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Investigates the authenticity of the Chandos portrait and five others as true likenesses of playwright William Shakespeare, and explores Shakespeare's life and world, presenting and describing individual costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps from his time as well as portraits of his contemporaries.
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The painting of portrait miniatures in watercolour is a peculiarly English art form, for no other country supported a continuous and flourishing school of artists working in this manner over a period of almost four hundred years. Technically the art derived from the studios of the Flemish-Burgundian manuscript illuminators, and from the beginning many of its most distinguished practictioners were from the Continent. The art was firmly established...
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"In the 120 years that divide Hogarth's early works around 1730 from the death of Turner in 1851, Britain's status as an artistic nation was dramatically transformed. From being a provincial backwater, it became one of the most progressive in Europe. Hogarth himself brought modern life into painting and treated it with high moral seriousness disguised as satire. Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence revolutionized portraiture, introducing a...
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