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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...
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The Last Painted Likeness: Biedermeier Portraiture on the Cusp of the Photographic Age

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  Author- Brian Hawkeswood                                                                                             Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung There is a peculiar poignancy in the portraiture of the Biedermeier period —something restrained yet revealing, intimate but polite, exacting yet deeply human. These portraits emerged in the early 19th century, flourished in the decades following the Napoleonic Wars , and receded just as photography entered the domestic and civic sphere. The Biedermeier portrait painter was, in many ways, the last artisan of the painted likeness—working before the camera made representational fidelity a matter of mechanics rather than brushstroke.                 ...
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