George Eliot, Lady Eastlake, and the Humbug of Old Masters

'Glossing an entry in George Eliot’s journal where she records her reaction to paintings by Rubens in Antwerp provides an opportunity to consider the commonplaces and conventions that informed writing about art in the mid-nineteenth century and the place of two uncommonly gifted women as contri...

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Main Author: Patricia Rubin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-06-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/830