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Hace 3 días · Angelica Kauffmann, RA: Her Life and Her Works by Victoria Manners, Forgotten Books, London, 2018 (first published 1924), page 87. 11. Angelica Kauffman, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 2024, page 87.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Victorian era, in British history, the period between approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria ’s reign (1837–1901) and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world.
15 de jun. de 2024 · Angelica had excellent manners, so that she was regarded as either a near-equal or an agreeable companion by her noble sitters; Her studio was perfectly respectable, so that a lady could go there without male escort. Last but not least, Angelica made her female sitters look beautiful. She captured the character, and carefully ...
Hace 5 días · The Importance of Being Earnest, play in three acts by Oscar Wilde, performed in 1895 and published in 1899. A satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, the witty play is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement.
Hace 5 días · A society in which behavior is codified, language restricted to impersonal formulas, and the expression of feeling muted, is the province of the novel of manners, and such fiction may be produced as readily in the 20th century as in the era of Fanny Burney or Jane Austen.
Hace 3 días · While parliamentary reformers focused on institutional reform, the promotion of a reformation of manners from the seventeen-nineties onwards, explicitly in reaction to revolution, offered an alternative lineage for reform, aiding its rehabilitation and sanitisation.
Hace 5 días · In the Victorian era, Himmelfarb observed, ‘manners were sanctified and moralised, so to speak, while morals were secularised and domesticated’. Simply put, manners were the guardrails of morality: they could not make men paragons but they could keep them within the bounds of propriety.
