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Baroque :: Periods and Movements
Volume 21, number 2: Emerging Themes, Emerging Voices
Mills Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Considering the Copy
Moss Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Beyond English
LaFountain Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Collapsing Boundaries
Bailly Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Objects, Contexts, and the Space Between
Jordan Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Copley's Cargo
Roberts Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
In 1765, John Singleton Copley sent his painting Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) from Boston to London in hopes of receiving feedback from the arbiters of academic aesthetics. Several months later, he received the welcome news that Sir Joshua Reynolds had called the painting "wonderfull." In virtually every scholarly narrative of early American art, Boy with a Squirrel derives its canonical significance from this famous transatlantic relay. But the most basic reality of that relay–the massive fact of the Atlantic Ocean standing between Copley and his interlocutors–has barely been registered in the scholarship.This essay interprets Boy with a Squirrel in terms of the difficulty and delicacy of its transatlantic transmission. I argue that Copley, as he attempted to create a painting that would have the necessary transitive qualities, drew from an array of familiar discourses of Atlantic exchange and transport. The painting's profile format evoked strategies of numismatic exchange. The precise representation of the flying squirrel tapped into well-established transatlantic natural history circuits. The spatial transformations of the composition echoed not only empiricist theories of sensory conveyance (especially the writings of George Berkeley), but also mirrored the workaday dynamics of the shipping and reassembly of transatlantic commodities. Copley, like many other colonial artists, worked in a global community governed by distance, difference, and delay. By attending to the vehicular context of Boy with a Squirrel, we can begin to understand his strategies for articulating–and navigating–that new global space.
Artchive: Diego Velazquez - Except from the book 'Embodied Meanings' by Arthur Danto and a collection of images.
Artcyclopedia: Diego Velazquez on the Internet - Links to works of the artist in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Diego Velazquez [Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1599-1660] Guide to pictures of works by Diego Velazquez in art museum sites and image archives worldwide. ]
Catholic Encyclopedia: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez - Artist's biography by Louis Gillet.
Meta Description: [ Artist's biography by Louis Gillet ]
CGFA: Diego Velázquez - Image gallery and artist's biography from MS Encarta '97.
Diego Velazquez at Addio Gallery - Collection of images and artist's biography.
Diego Velazquez at ThinkQuest Library - Artist's biography and several images of his works.
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Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez - Virtual reality journey into the enigmatic world of the great Spanish painter through his painting, Las Meninas.
Olga's Gallery: Diego Velázquez - Comprehensive collection of artist's works with a biography and historical comments.
Meta Description: [ One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits daily. Biographies and main works of many famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions. Historical comments., One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits daily. Biographies and main works of many famous artists. Excellent... ]
Tigertail Virtual Museum: Diego Velazquez - Gallery of images.
Velazquez in Cyberspain - Artist's biography and his works.
Meta Description: [ Velazquez: his works & his life ]
Web Gallery of Art: Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y - Collection of images and artist's biography.
WebMuseum: Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego - Artist's biography and a collection of images.
