Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
12-2018
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Fine Arts
Degree Program
Art (Creative) and Art History
Committee Chair
Reitz, Christopher
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Kim, Jongwoo Jeremy
Committee Member
Kim, Jongwoo Jeremy
Committee Member
Hadley, Karen
Author's Keywords
landscape painting; eighteenth-century; English; Grand Tour; associationism
Abstract
In the early eighteenth century, both English and French artists traveled to Rome to study the great seventeenth-century landscape artists --Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin in particular—at the source. The English were motivated by a combination of reverence for the ancient, classical world, an associative imagination and a burgeoning competitive art market. The French, by an equal regard for antiquity and the pragmatic desire to complete the requirements of the monopolistic French Academy. While English landscape painting evolved away from the idealism of Claude to a modern naturalism imbued with the artist’s subjective response to a visual experience, French landscape painting for the most part continued with the intellectual, idealistic compositions of the century before. This thesis suggests some of the reasons why landscape painting thrived in England during the eighteenth century while it stagnated in France, when both concurrently shared the same origins.
Recommended Citation
Schumacher, Jessica Robins, "Common ground, diverging paths: eighteenth-century English and French landscape painting." (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3111.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/3111
