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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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Christian Seybold and the Dresden Baroque: Precision, Drama and Psychological Intimacy in Late Baroque Portraiture.

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     Author - Brian Hawkeswood                                                                                                                       Scrollen Sie nach unten für die deutsche Version. The Baroque style in portraiture, emerging in the early 17th century and persisting in various regional forms into the 18th, was a mode of representation defined by drama, rich realism, and an immersive emotional presence. In contrast to the idealized figures of the Renaissance, Baroque portraiture emphasized immediacy, movement, and psychological depth—qualities often heightened through theatrical lighting and a tactile rendering of materials. In the Central European context, particular...
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