Dante’s Topographer: William Blake’s Illustrations to the Divine Comedy Hayley Flynn This article considers William Blake’s illustrations to Dante and the prominence of landscape imagery in the artist’s designs. Blake’s emphasis on the topography of the Divine Comedy is unprecedented in the history of Dante illustration and his drawings therefore represent the most significant attempt…

A Problematic Attraction: French Artists and the Primitive at the French Academy in Rome Kathleen McLauchlan From the start of the nineteenth century French artists had sought inspiration in the early Renaissance period – its art, literature and history. Their motivations included nostalgia for the past, the prospect of fresh and dramatic subject matter, and…

Carl Blaas e i nazareni a Roma Antonella Bellin This essay focuses on the relationship between the Austrian painter Carl Blaas and the Nazarenes through a study of Blaas’ drawings, paintings and autobiography of 1876.

Another piece of the mosaic. Trecento influences on the Albert Memorial Alan Crookham The Albert Memorial was constructed as a monument to Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, following his death in 1861. Completed in 1876, it is a major example of the Gothic Revival yet one that references both Classicism and the Italian…

La riscoperta della tradizione medioevale nella scultura francese dopo il 1870. Laura Lombardi Around 1860, Academic sculptors seem inclined to relinquish the model originated by Greek and Roman tradition to embrace Renaissance-inspired models, as it is the case of the so-called ‘neo-florentines’ (Dubois, Mercié, René de Saint Marceaux…). After 1870, another group rather turns to…

Winifred Margaret Knights and the Rediscovery of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century Lyrica Taylor This article analyzes the artwork of Winifred Margaret Knights, the first woman to win a fine art scholarship to the British School at Rome, in order to understand her contributions to British Modernism as being deeply rooted in the…