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2 days ago · Conserving Kauffman sheds new light on Angelica Kauffman’s Diomed and Cressida (1788), from its conception through to a major conservation project that has brought the artwork back to life. It uncovers secrets that have lain hidden beneath the painting’s surface until now and explores the fascinating world of art conservation.
4 days ago · Angelica Kauffman was one of the most celebrated artists of her age. One of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy, she was known for her celebrity portraits and history painting, pioneering a new approach to the genre by placing the female protagonist at the heart of the action.
2 days ago · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.
4 days ago · Artists from this period include Rosalba Carriera, Maria Cosway, Marguerite Gérard, Angelica Kauffman, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Giulia Lama, Mary Moser, Ulrika Pasch, Adèle Romany, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Marie-Guillemine Benoist and Anna Rajecka, also known as Madame Gault de Saint-Germain.
3 days ago · Art lovers will also be delighted to learn that the museum's collections include a host of paintings by classic Tyrolean painters such as Michael Pacher, Lucas Cranach der Ältere, Rembrandt van Rijn, Joseph Anton Koch and Angelica Kauffman.
2 days ago · François-Hubert Drouais painted Marie-Antoinette, when Dauphine, en Hébé in 1773, and Angelica Kauffman and Gaspare Landi both painted several Hebes. Notably, the Mercure de France addressed Marie-Antoinette as Hebe upon her marriage.
3 days ago · John Baptist Cipriani and Angelica Kauffman, painters of the same period, did much decorative work for Chambers, Adam, Chippendale, and other furniture designers; Cipriani decorated Carlton House. Thomas Chippendale, the son and father of furniture makers, exercised the same trade in London in the latter half of the 18th century.
