‘This will be a popular picture’: Giovanni Battista Moroni’s 'Tailor' and the Female Gaze
When Giovanni Battista Moroni’s portrait of a tailor entered the National Gallery collection in 1862, Elizabeth Eastlake quite rightly predicted in her diary that ‘This will be a popular picture’. The painting was the star exhibit at the Royal Academy Moroni exhibition in 2014, and in the intervenin...
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Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-06-01
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Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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Online Access: | https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/822 |