Sitwell Style

This chapter notes that Sacheverell Sitwell’s Southern Baroque Art is a turning point in the rediscovery, or reappropriation, of the baroque. Much of his work is an enormously persuasive appreciation of baroque qualities and moods, melancholy, ambiguity, richness, and deception. These qualities cross-fertilized with Vogue’s espousal of camp. All three Sitwells were also enormously important as patrons, networkers, and facilitators on behalf of those whom they fostered. The chapter also looks at Osbert’s and Sacheverell’s important roles in the development of a British ballet.