Samuel Palmer, John Martin, and John Sell Cotman
This article considers how a viewer identifies spiritual meaning in landscape images of the Romantic era as well as the role of artists’ statements about their work in a viewer’s interpretive process. It examines landscapes by Samuel Palmer and John Martin, two early nineteenth-century British artis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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| In: |
Religion and the arts
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 40-57 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Martin, John 1789-1854
/ Palmer, Samuel 1805-1881
/ Cotman, John Sell 1782-1842
/ Landscape painting
/ Spirituality
/ Secularism
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| Further subjects: | B
Landscape
nature
paradise
Romanticism
Robert Rosenblum
Samuel Palmer
John Martin
John Sell Cotman
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This article considers how a viewer identifies spiritual meaning in landscape images of the Romantic era as well as the role of artists’ statements about their work in a viewer’s interpretive process. It examines landscapes by Samuel Palmer and John Martin, two early nineteenth-century British artists known for the spiritual content of their work, and the connection between the work and their published statements about it. The article also considers the “secular” landscapes by their contemporary John Sell Cotman for the work’s possible spiritual meaning despite the absence of published comments by the artist on the subject. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | In: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02201002 |