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Ruins and Reputations
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This chapter explores how poetic inspiration, centred around the tombs of ancient poets, can be expressed through the material idiom of painting. It approaches the ‘tomb of Virgil’ through the eyes of artists working in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the vogue for travel and the growth of a market for topographical and antiquarian images produced the circumstances that gave new life to representations of the tombs of the Greek and Roman poets. It focuses specifically on the work of two artists who visited the spot: Joseph Wright of Derby, who produced a number of variants of a highly poetical approach to the tomb, and J. M. W. Turner, who thought about the tomb of the poet in relation to the social role of the artist.
Title: Ruins and Reputations
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This chapter explores how poetic inspiration, centred around the tombs of ancient poets, can be expressed through the material idiom of painting.
It approaches the ‘tomb of Virgil’ through the eyes of artists working in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the vogue for travel and the growth of a market for topographical and antiquarian images produced the circumstances that gave new life to representations of the tombs of the Greek and Roman poets.
It focuses specifically on the work of two artists who visited the spot: Joseph Wright of Derby, who produced a number of variants of a highly poetical approach to the tomb, and J.
M.
W.
Turner, who thought about the tomb of the poet in relation to the social role of the artist.
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