The Painter and the Scullery Boy: Pietro da Cortona in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature

Although he was an international celebrity in his own lifetime, Pietro da Cortona’s reputation plummeted soon after his death, due in large part to changing standards of taste in the eighteenth century that were hostile to the extravagances of the Baroque style that he epitomized. By the nineteenth...

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Main Author: Lindsey Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2010-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_183169_en.pdf

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