The Great Business
Nicholas Penny, 21 March 1985
Art of the 19th Century: Painting and Sculpture
by Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson.
Thames and Hudson, 527 pp., £25, March 1984,0 500 23385 3 Show More
by Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson.
Thames and Hudson, 527 pp., £25, March 1984,
Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of 19th-Century Art
by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner.
Faber, 244 pp., £15, October 1984,0 571 13332 0 Show More
by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner.
Faber, 244 pp., £15, October 1984,
Géricault: His Life and Work
by Lorenz Eitner.
Orbis, 376 pp., £40, March 1983,0 85613 384 1 Show More
by Lorenz Eitner.
Orbis, 376 pp., £40, March 1983,
Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix
by Norman Bryson.
Cambridge, 277 pp., £27.50, August 1984,0 521 24193 6 Show More
by Norman Bryson.
Cambridge, 277 pp., £27.50, August 1984,
“... work of any other landscape painter in any century. The same mythology of 19th-century art makes Lorenz Eitner, in his admirable Géricault (which was awarded the 1983 Mitchell Prize for art history), exaggerate his hero’s isolation. He even supposes that Géricault, like some Abstract Expressionist, may have painted the Raft with ‘little ... ”
