Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture

305 Pages·2011·4.972 MB·English

by  Allison Lee Palmer

HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Jon Woronoff, Series Editor
Science Fiction Literature, by Brian Stableford, 2004.
Hong Kong Cinema, by Lisa Odham Stokes, 2007.
American Radio Soap Operas, by Jim Cox, 2005.
Japanese Traditional Theatre, by Samuel L. Leiter, 2006.
Fantasy Literature, by Brian Stableford, 2005.
Australian and New Zealand Cinema, by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth,
2006.
African-American Television, by Kathleen Fearn-Banks, 2006.
Lesbian Literature, by Meredith Miller, 2006.
Scandinavian Literature and Theater, by Jan Sjåvik, 2006.
British Radio, by Seán Street, 2006.
German Theater, by William Grange, 2006.
African American Cinema, by S. Torriano Berry and Venise Berry, 2006.
Sacred Music, by Joseph P. Swain, 2006.
Russian Theater, by Laurence Senelick, 2007.
French Cinema, by Dayna Oscherwitz and MaryEllen Higgins, 2007.
Postmodernist Literature and Theater, by Fran Mason, 2007.
Irish Cinema, by Roderick Flynn and Pat Brereton, 2007.
Australian Radio and Television, by Albert Moran and Chris Keating, 2007.
Polish Cinema, by Marek Haltof, 2007.
Old Time Radio, by Robert C. Reinehr and Jon D. Swartz, 2008.
Renaissance Art, by Lilian H. Zirpolo, 2008.
Broadway Musical, by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, 2008.
American Theater: Modernism, by James Fisher and Felicia Hardison
Londré, 2008.
German Cinema, by Robert C. Reimer and Carol J. Reimer, 2008.
Horror Cinema, by Peter Hutchings, 2008.
Westerns in Cinema, by Paul Varner, 2008.
Chinese Theater, by Tan Ye, 2008.
Italian Cinema, by Gino Moliterno, 2008.
Architecture, by Allison Lee Palmer, 2008.
Russian and Soviet Cinema, by Peter Rollberg, 2008.
African American Theater, by Anthony D. Hill, 2009.
Postwar German Literature, by William Grange, 2009.
Modern Japanese Literature and Theater, by J. Scott Miller, 2009.
Animation and Cartoons, by Nichola Dobson, 2009.
Modern Chinese Literature, by Li-hua Ying, 2010.
Middle Eastern Cinema, by Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard, 2010.
Spanish Cinema, by Alberto Mira, 2010.
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Film Noir, by Andrew Spicer, 2010.
French Theater, by Edward Forman, 2010.
Choral Music, by Melvin P. Unger, 2010.
Westerns in Literature, by Paul Varner, 2010.
Baroque Art and Architecture, by Lilian H. Zirpolo, 2010.
Surrealism, by Keith Aspley, 2010.
Science Fiction Cinema, by M. Keith Booker, 2010.
Latin American Literature and Theater, by Richard A. Young and Odile
Cisneros, 2011.
Children’s Literature, by Emer O’Sullivan, 2010.
German Literature to 1945, by William Grange, 2011.
Neoclassical Art and Architecture, by Allison Lee Palmer, 2011.
American Cinema, by M. Keith Booker, 2011.
American Theater: Contemporary, by James Fisher, 2011.
English Music: 1325–1958, by Charles Edward McGuire and Steven E.
Plank, 2011.
Rococo Art, by Jennifer D. Milam, 2011.
Romantic Art and Architecture, by Allison Lee Palmer, 2011.
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Historical Dictionary
of Romantic Art and
Architecture
Allison Lee Palmer
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Lanham • Toronto • Plymouth, UK
2011
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Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc.
A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
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Copyright © 2011 by Allison Lee Palmer
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any
electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems,
without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote
passages in a review.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Palmer, Allison Lee, 1963–
Historical dictionary of Romantic art and architecture / Allison Lee Palmer.
p. cm. — (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8108-7222-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8108-7473-2 (ebook)
1. Romanticism in art—Dictionaries. 2. Romanticism in architecture—Dictionaries.
I. Title.
N6465.R6P35 2011
709.03'4203—dc22 2011002871
™
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American
National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library
Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
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To Carol, Dan, and Noah
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff xi
Preface xiii
Chronology xv
Introduction 1
THE DICTIONARY 13
Bibliography 245
About the Author 285
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Illustrations
Paintings and Prints
William Blake, Ancient of Days, 1794, etching and watercolor,
London, British Museum (photo: Wikimedia Commons PD-Art) 40
Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818,
oil on canvas, Hamburg, Kunsthalle (photo: Wikimedia
CommonsPD-Art) 93
Frederic Edwin Church, Morning in the Tropics, 1877, Washington,
D.C., National Gallery of Art (photo: Wikimedia Commons
PD-Art) 62
Eugène Delacroix, The Massacre at Scio, 1822, Paris, Louvre
Museum (photo: Wikimedia Commons PD-Art) 81
Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on
canvas, London, National Gallery (photo: Wikimedia Commons
PD-Art) 82
Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas, Detroit,
Institute of Fine Arts (photo: Wikimedia Commons PD-Art) 96
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, The Entombment of Atala, 1808, Paris,
Louvre Museum (photo: Wikimedia Commons PD-Art) 107
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Third of May, 1808, 1814, oil
on canvas, Madrid, Prado (photo: The Yorck Project—GNU
Free Documentation License) 113
Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa, 1804,
Paris, Louvre Museum (photo: Wikimedia Commons PD-Art) 116
Caspar Wolf, Waterfall in Winter, c. 1778, Winterthur, Museum
Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten (photo: The Yorck Project—GNU
Free Documentation License) 240
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