Nineteenth-Century Glasgow “produced two impressively eccentric architects. One, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), left Glasgow in disillusionment but is enjoying a huge international vogue. His master work, the Glasgow School of Art, completed in 1909, is among the city’s most popular tourist attractions. The one who stayed, Alexander (Greek) Thomson (1817-1875), is known outside Glasgow mostly by …
After their expulsion from England by Edward I in 1290, the Jews’ gradual return to the kingdom was not obstructed, especially under Cromwell and the Stuarts. Their increasing numbers, integration, and acculturation led finally, after several failed attempts, to the complete removal of the few — but not insignificant — remaining restrictions on their full …
Lady Hawarden, a Victorian photographer, of Scottish origin, an enigmatic and original figure in the history.of photography. Less is More. Clementina Fleeming Hawarden, Victorian Photographer PDF
A productive painter of der Blaue Reiter school of expressionism, Gabrielle Münter was overshadowed during her lifetime by her extraordinarily gifted teacher and lover, Wasilly Kandinsky. There is almost no awareness of Münter’s American connection, in particular, the hundreds of photographs she took in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas in 1898-1900. These photographs are the focus of this study.
The Burgh Halls of Maryhill – a north-western district of Glasgow — are adorned by twenty stained glass panels of extraordinary power, beauty, and originality. Created between 1877 and 1881 by the barely thirty-year old artist, Stephen Adam, these panels are unique among stained glass works of the time in that they celebrate contemporary themes of industrial labor.
A study of an artist little known outside Germany whose career, artistic evolution, and tragic life are emblematic of European history from the 1890s to the Second World War.
An image collection supplementing the images reproduced in Gossman’s The Making of a Romantic Icon (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007).
A reconsideration of a group of early 19th-century artists, usually referred to as the “Nazarenes.” Widely celebrated and influential in their own time, they are now no longer well known or highly regarded outside their native Germany.
Originally commissioned by Lucien Dällenbach of the E.T.H., Zürich in 1995 as one of four essays for a projected volume on Swiss travelers and explorers that was never realized. The main focus is on Jean-Louis Burckhardt, the pioneer explorer of the Middle East and discoverer of Petra.
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