The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art

Download or read book The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art written by Sarah J. Lippert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered primarily in the context of Renaissance art history, but in this book readers will see how the legacy of this humanistic competitive model survived into the late nineteenth century.