Epic Landscapes - Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor (Hardcover)

Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l’oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe’s architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe’s watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

General

Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2011
Authors:	Julia Sienkewicz
Dimensions:	259 x 221 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-64453-159-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-64453-159-3
Barcode:	9781644531594

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