Royal Academy, fourth notice
Overview
| Date | 1877-06-16 |
| Publication | Academy |
| Topic | Royal Academy, fourth notice |
| AP display | |
| RA display | ✓ |
| Subject | art |
| Keywords | sculpture |
| ↳ | water-colours |
| Standards | PRB aesthetic standards |
| ↳ | merit |
| Notes | Leighton's sculpture best |
| ↳ | Coleridge/Poe |
| ↳ | Marie Antoinette |
Annotation details
77 June 16 Academy
Topic:
Royal Academy Exhibition, fourth notice.
Citation:
Rossetti, William M. "The Royal Academy Exhibition." Academy (June 16, 1877): 539. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
Summary:
Rossetti pronounces Sir Frederick Leighton's sculpture to be the best of the exhibition and further, he finds it noteworthy that the sculpture was done by a painter. Rossetti discusses the statue and how it was planned, executed and the way in which it expresses the sculptor's intent.
Rossetti discusses a sculpture by Aimé-Jules Dalou in a similar manner, adding a side note regarding Rossetti's appraisal of Marie Antoinette's character. He also discusses Thomas Woolner's exhibited statuary, then proceeds to Water-Colours. In that section, he uses a comparison to Poe contrasted with Coleridge to illustrate a point about painting. There is a further section of essentially mentions only of water-colour artists and their works without critical discussion.
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