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The Rake's Progress. The Rake's Progress (La Carrière du libertin) est un opéra en trois actes composé par Igor Stravinsky entre 1948 et 1951 sur un livret de Wystan Hugh Auden et Chester Kallman, inspiré en partie de la série de huit peintures A Rake's Progress de William Hogarth, créé en 1951 à Venise.
14 de oct. de 2023 · A Rake's Progress (1732-4) was a series of eight oil paintings that were preparatory works for engravings and prints portraying the downfall of the fictional Tom Rakewell. The first, The Heir, introduces Tom after the death of his miserly father, paying off Sarah Young, a maid that he'd promised to marry, while others help themselves to ...
The Tavern Scene, plate III of the Rake's Progress Series, shows a debauched and lively evening of drinking at the heart of which is Tom Rakewell, the anti-hero of the work. Another fictional character, Tom, like Moll, came to the city to build a life, only to succumb to its temptations.
William Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Tavern Scene or The Orgy is a work by the English artist William Hogarth from 1735, the third picture from the series A Rake's Progress. [1] A Rake's Progress totals eight oil paintings from 1732 to 1733. They were published as engravings from 1734. The series depicts the fictional Tom Rakewell's decline and fall.
Hogarth: Place and Progress will unite all of the paintings and engravings in Hogarth's series for the first time. The Museum’s own Rake’s Progress and An Election will be joined by Marriage A-la-Mode from the National Gallery, the Four Times of Day from the National Trust and a private collection, as well as the three surviving paintings of The Happy Marriage from Tate and the Royal ...
Nel 1947 Stravinskij visitò l' Art Institute of Chicago dove erano esposte una serie di incisioni settecentesche e rimase colpito da un gruppo di otto immagini di William Hogarth intitolate The Rake's Progress che gli suggerirono subito una sequenza di scene d'opera. Già dai primi anni del suo trasferimento negli Stati Uniti Stravinskij pensava di comporre un'opera su testo inglese e questa ...
