ARTH 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Francis Hayman, Mir Jafar, Oil Sketch
11 Feb 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The idea of spectacle provides us lead into ways of taste and connoisseurship notions: engaging with these more formal institutions, like the golden age of vauxhall, because of the emergence of formal institutions for art. We see couples that are paired off, and walking slowly through these spaces and savouring the decoration they are enveloped in: you enter the space from a gothic doorway, and into a gallery. You have four large scale elaborate rococo frames, though they are empty. Tiers had intended on filming these frames with enormous canvases, full of painted portraits of the royal family in allegory (they would embody the love of the arts). Fredric, prince of wales, died suddenly, and his planned was thwarted because he had lost his patron and subject. The frames remained empty for ten years, which is unusual for a place that is meant to be a spectacle: the remaining four frames were eventually filled by another ornate project.
