Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting

Martin Postle (editor), Robin Simon (editor), Richard Wilson, Yale Center for British Art (host institution), National Museum Wales (host institution)

Hardback (04 Mar 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Long known as the father of British landscape painting, Richard Wilson (1713-1782) was in fact at the heart of a proofound conceptual shift in European landscape art. This illustrated volume not only situates Wilson's art at the beginning of a native tradition that would lead to John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, but compellingly argues that in Rome during the 1750s Wilson was part of an international group of artists who reshaped the art of Europe.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780300203851
Publisher:	Yale Center for British Art
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Pub date:	04 Mar 2014
DEWEY:	759.2929
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	416
Weight:	2328g
Height:	253mm
Width:	297mm
Spine width:	33mm