A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture from Political to Personal in Eighteenth-Century Germany
by
Christina K. Lindeman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed her court into...