Artigo Revisado por pares

Die Schönheit am Scheideweg. Schönheit und Mäßigung in den Tugend- und Kunst-Allegorien von Angelika Kauffmann

2004; Deutscher Kunstverlag; Volume: 67; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/20474241

ISSN

2569-1619

Autores

Marie-Louise Geiseler,

Tópico(s)

Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

Resumo

The writer discusses four late-18th-centuy round paintings by Angelika Kauffmann which are allegories of beauty. The works are deliberately ambiguous and reflect a contemporary tension between rationality and emotion. The writer focuses on such things as Kauffmann's treatment of the themes of androgyny and the Three Graces and suggests that the works may be read not only as allegories of virtue, but also as allegories of art.

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