1) Affected style
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Grand Manner refers to an idealized aesthetic style derived from classical art, and the modern `classic art` of the High Renaissance. In the eighteenth century, British artists and connoisseurs used the term to describe paintings that incorporated visual metaphors in order to suggest noble qualities. It was Sir Joshua Reynolds who gave currency .....
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English term for the highest style of art in academic theory. Given currency by Reynolds and extensively discussed in his Discourses on Art - fifteen lectures delivered to students at Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790. Reynolds argued that painters should not slavishly copy nature but seek a generalised and ideal form. This 'gives what is called ...
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