CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! Morris Brownell’s writing suggests that it is difficult to overestimate Alexander Pope’s influence in the enunciation of the picturesque and the development of landscape-style gardening and architecture. However, it also cannot be denied that Pope’s efforts were inspired and modified by a …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! When the aesthetic of the sublime would be redefined and reinterpreted by Enlightenment-era philosophers, the works of Salvator Rosa provided a ready-made visual vocabulary for aspiring British gothicists to incorporate sublimity into their own projects. However, there is another, less obvious, antecedent …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! Periodically throughout this discussion, I will invite guest bloggers to take on a subject of in their field of expertise. In this first aside, John Pendell, a medievalist and lecturer at University of Michigan — Flint discusses the historical Goths. …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! One very reasonable question at this point is “why Salvator Rosa?” After all, we have taken a look at Rosa in light of when and where he lived, and we have seen that, in that context, his work was not viewed, by …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! I should take a moment to (procrastinate and) introduce you to your surroundings. Obviously, this is an online project and we are in many separate spaces. But this course is also an illegitimate, unaccredited, and (possibly) unread enterprise, and so I have …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! In one sense, our exploration of the gothic will begin with an early subject: the career of painter Salvator Rosa, who was active during the middle part of the 1600s in the cities of Naples, Florence, and Rome. Rosa was a …