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This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society

Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures that were exhibited in London in 1799 and 1800. Starting from Fuseli's adaptation, Luisa

Addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, this philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?"; to

Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and other precious materials were the most celebrated artworks of classical antiquity. Greek and Latin authors leave no doubt that such images provided a centrepiece

(This title is available on demand : expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered)In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very