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(Neoclassicism & Romanticism) ROMANTICISM [continued (47)] [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

[Redbook10:60][19910512:1718ej](Neoclassicism & Romanticism) ROMANTICISM [continued (47)] [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]


19910512.1718

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‘While largely historical in outlook, [medieval] revivalist illustration was also used to comment upon contemporary events by Alfred Rethel, especially in his “Another Dance of Death” (1849[ce]) in which the consequences of the 1848[ce] Revolution are depicted in the format and style of a 16th-century [ce] woodcut.’

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* – ibid [(Encyclopaedia of Visual Art):] 765

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