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! 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! 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 …
Understanding the Gothic, 410 – 2016 Part I: Bone Deep Gothic Gothic Funk Press is happy to offer an informal course that will explore the rise of the Gothic outlook and aesthetic from its complex distant roots, guided by Gothic: 400 Years of Horror, Excess, Evil and Ruin, Richard Davenport-Hines’ impassioned and eccentric exploration of …