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(Neoclassicism & Romanticism) ROMANTICISM [continued (38)] [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

[Redbook10:56][19910512:1718ea](Neoclassicism & Romanticism) ROMANTICISM [continued (38)] [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]


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‘In portraiture, too, there was an increasing emphasis on mood. The darkening tone of Goya's late portraits witnessed not only the artist's changing disposition but also a growing cult of melancholy.’

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(examples 1805, 1808)



* – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art: 757]



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