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UNDERSTANDING THE GOTHIC #9: MR. POPE GOES TO TWICKENHAM

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 …