The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Works of Claude-Joseph Vernet
Description:
This thesis examines the roles of the sublime and the beautiful in the works of eighteenth-century French landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. An introduction to the study, a history of the sublime and beautiful, and an overview of the way these ideas are portrayed in Vernet's calm and storm pendants are provided. How commissions for these pendants relate to theoretical developments of the sublime and beautiful and how Vernet became aware of the these ideas are addressed. The thesis shows Ve…
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Date:
May 1994
Creator:
Howard, Jane
Partner:
UNT Libraries