Ideal yet Actual: Actresses Posing as Antique Heroines in Late-Victorian “Classical” Portraits

The late-Victorian neoclassical artists George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton and Edward Poynter posed three famous actresses, Ellen Terry, Dorothy Dene and Lillie Langtry, in paintings whose subjects were drawn from Antiquity. The choice of mythological or tragic themes would categorize these wo...

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Main Author: Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Bourgogne 2024-06-01
Series:Interfaces
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/8808
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