The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination by Sam Smiles

The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Sam Smiles

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How was the remote past of Britain imagined in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What part did the visual arts play in that process? In this book Sam Smiles argues that the ancient Britain of the romantic imagination was a contested world, ...

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