Artist vs. connoisseur : the Committee of National Monuments and the arbitration of taste

Author

Gur, Michael E.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Southeastern College Art Conference review. 1994, Num. 4, Vol. 12, 259-264, 4 ill.

ISSN

1043-5158

Abstract (en)

Discusses the responsibility of the Committee of National Monuments for the disappointing quality of a series of large-scale sculpted monuments erected in S. Paul's, London, in the early 19th c., including works of Thomas Banks, John Charles Rossi, and John Bacon the younger; publicly funded, the memorials were commissioned 1798-1823 by Parliament to honor of British military heroes who had fallen or given extraordinary service in the struggle against Revolutionary France. The issue was whether artists or connoisseurs, in this case the Royal Academy or the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts (founded 1805) and the Committee of National Monuments, should be the judges of quality in works of art.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- United Kingdom
• Commemorative monuments
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Committee of National Monuments||Great Britain
• British Institution||London (GBR)
• S. Paul's (cathedral)||London (GBR)
• Rossi, John Charles Felix, 1762-1839
• Banks, Thomas, 1735-1805
• Bacon, John II, 1777-1859
• Military
• Connoisseurship
• Taste (aesthetics)
• Artists
• Royal Academy of Arts||London (GBR)
• State
• Parliament||Great Britain
• Commissions

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- Royaume-Uni
• Monument commémoratif
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Committee of National Monuments||Great Britain
• British Institution||London (GBR)
• S. Paul's (cathédrale)||London (GBR)
• Rossi, John Charles Felix, 1762-1839
• Banks, Thomas, 1735-1805
• Bacon, John II, 1777-1859
• Militaires
• Connoisseurship
• Goût (esthétique)
• Artistes
• Royal Academy of Arts||London (GBR)
• Etat
• Parliament||Great Britain
• Commande d'oeuvre d'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19951001-00320783

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