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Hace 4 días · Summary. The editorial cartoon is a touchstone for matters of free expression in the journalistic tradition. Since their early inception in the politically charged engravings of 18th-century pictorial satirist William Hogarth to the present day, editorial cartoons have shone forth as signifiers of comic irreverence and mockery in the face of governmental authority and in the more generalized ...
Hace 4 días · De alumno a maestro. Desde el pasado jueves está disponible en el Museo Histórico Departamental ‘Cdte. Juan Spikerman’, de la ciudad de Canelones, una muestra en homenaje a Jorge Femenías.
Hace 1 día · Sir William Blackstone coined the term "Pious perjury" for an increasingly common practice in Georgian courts. As jurors finally realised that the severity of the measures was disproportionate to the crimes, they acted against the "Bloody Code". Juries began to administer "pious perjury" to limit the amount of death sentences that were handed down.
Hace 45 minutos · William Hogarth’s painting of The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, performed as the closing production at Goodman’s Fields Theatre on May 27th 1742. David Garrick’s monument in Westminster Abbey is to be seen on the top right of this glass slide.
Hace 1 día · Everything from William Hogarth’s “A Rake’s Progress” to the sarcophagus of Seti I. It’s “a jewel box”, says Iris Viktor, who spent months trying to figure out how her works would fit in around Caneletto’s “Riva degli Schiavoni” and François Fouquet’s plaster-of-Paris model of “The Great Temple at Paestum”.
Hace 3 días · The Superintendent from 1852 to 1862 was William Charles Hood, who did much to reform and improve conditions for patients at the hospital. Dr T. B. Hyslop came to the hospital in 1888 and rose to be physician in charge, bringing the hospital into the 20th century and retiring in 1911. 1930–present
Hace 2 días · But the strongest art historic link with Chiswick is to the Georgian satirist William Hogarth, who inspired the whole rags to riches narrative and series format. The tapestries pay tribute to and offer a contemporary reinterpretation of Hogarth’s seminal work, A Rake’s Progress, where Tom Rakewell falls from riches to rags in eight paintings.
