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Angelica Kauffman / Bettina Baumgärtel, Annette Wickham.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2024.Description: 125 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781915815033
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Contents:
'She was of her time and the time was made for her' / Bettina Baumgärtel
Angelica Kauffman and the Royal Academy / Annette Wickham
Catalogue plates, with section introductions
Staging the Self / Annette Wickham
From Italy to England / Annette Wickham
Kauffman and the Royal Academy / Annette Wickham
Return to Rome / Annette Wickham
Chronology / Bettina Baumgärtel
Summary: Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history painter, an innovative portraitist and one of only two women among the founding membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. 'The whole World is angelicamad' - thus a Danish diplomat described the effect of her art and personality during her lifetime. Kauffman was admired by Goethe and Herder, and her clients included queens and emperors from across the continent. Her extraordinary life and work are beautifully presented in this volume, which contains her finest paintings and drawings.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room KAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12866

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1 March-30 June 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index.

'She was of her time and the time was made for her' / Bettina Baumgärtel

Angelica Kauffman and the Royal Academy / Annette Wickham

Catalogue plates, with section introductions

Staging the Self / Annette Wickham

From Italy to England / Annette Wickham

Kauffman and the Royal Academy / Annette Wickham

Return to Rome / Annette Wickham

Chronology / Bettina Baumgärtel

Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history painter, an innovative portraitist and one of only two women among the founding membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. 'The whole World is angelicamad' - thus a Danish diplomat described the effect of her art and personality during her lifetime. Kauffman was admired by Goethe and Herder, and her clients included queens and emperors from across the continent. Her extraordinary life and work are beautifully presented in this volume, which contains her finest paintings and drawings.

Translated from the German.