Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance by Richard Jenkyns

Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance

Richard Jenkyns

363 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

art history informative reflective slow-paced

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The starting point for Richard Jenkyns's latest work is his contention that the Victorian age, which we think of as the great age of Gothic, was so shot through with the influence of the classical past that we should instead think of Victorian art...

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