Description
Book SynopsisBased on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration.
Trade ReviewMany years ago, Emil Kauffman illuminated the topic of the architects of the Age of Reason; Anna Ottani Cavina's [title] is a new episode of the very same history, the history of modernity. -- Enrico Castelnuovo L'Indice The success of Anna Ottani Cavina's enterprise, allowing us henceforth to look differently at some luminous drawings and paintings, makes one yearn all the more to be able one day to look at the ambitious history paintings of the late eighteenth-century with the same penetration and sympathy. -- Philippe Bordes Burlington Magazine
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Antiquity as Future: The Past as a Model for Aesthetic Renewal 2. Living in the "Ancient Style": European Residences and the Italian Model 3. Landscapes of Reason: The Quest for Basic Geometric Forms in Landscape Painting from David to Corot Notes Index
