Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…This essay foregrounds the work of late nineteenth-century British painter Margaret Murray Cookesley, who may be largely forgotten today, but who in her day exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and, it seems, also managed to sell her art to an interested public. …”
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Between the Olympian and the Dionysian: Pagan Energy in Paintings by Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…This article aims at examining the tension that characterizes some representations of Antiquity in the works of British painters of the 1860s-1890s as well as the critical reception of those works in contemporary periodicals and monographs. …”
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