Rise of landscape gardening in England and its effect on English literature in the 18th. century.

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Gothic Taste and Russian Culture of the 18th Century

This project was an experiment in widening the traditional borders of study in the field and looking at the phenomenon of Gothic taste in many genres and kinds of art. The Gothic taste was a major element in the cultural image of the Enlightenment both in western Europe and in Russia. It was an essential component in the world outlook of an educated person and without studying this phenomenon it is impossible to fully understand the thinking of artistic professionals, amateurs and users in Russian society in the 18th century. Mr. Khatchatourov first analysed the reasons for the importance of Gothic taste in the culture of the European Enlightenment and then studied its linguistic and lexicographic evolution in 18th century Russian culture. He sought to determine the semantic context which actively formed the human mind set in the Enlightenment, including potential users and producers of articles in the Gothic taste. He then looked at the process of absorption of this concept by those forms of art which express it most strongly, in particular architecture and the theatre. His study was based on a comprehensive historical and culturological study using a wide range of sources, a formal stylistic method approach considering the interaction of non-classical styles of the Enlightenment with the dominant classicism, and an iconographic approach which revealed the essential aspects in a new image synthesis of the culture of the Enlightenment.

La gitana : Arabo-Spanish gypsy song of the 18th century /

Mode of access: Internet.

English and French furniture of the eighteenth century; comprising a large collection of those designs most esteemed by connoisseurs, including both simple and elaborate styles, with descriptive text accompanying each piece ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The French noblesse of the XVIII century;

Mode of access: Internet.

The French pastellists of the eighteenth century, their lives, their times, their art, and their significance;

The colored portraits are accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

Passages in prose and verse from German literature of the nineteenth century, 1800 to 1870,

Mode of access: Internet.

French painters of the XVIIIth century,

Mode of access: Internet.

Horace in the English literature of the eighteenth century,

Mode of access: Internet.

English literature of the nineteenth century:

Mode of access: Internet.