Grand Manner

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Grand Manner is an 18th-century style of painting characterized by idealized, elevated depictions of historical, mythological, or portrait subjects, closely associated with Sir Joshua Reynolds and academic art.

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Grand Manner canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 18th-century art movement
artistic style
painting style
aimsFor dignity
grandeur
timelessness
associatedWith British art
Neoclassicism
Royal Academy of Arts
Sir Joshua Reynolds
linked to: Joshua Reynolds

academic art
characterizedBy classical references
elevated subject matter
emphasis on nobility and virtue
formal composition
heroic scale
idealization of the human figure
idealized landscape settings
use of allegory
codifiedBy Sir Joshua Reynolds
linked to: Joshua Reynolds
contrastedWith Romanticism
genre painting
naturalism
emphasizes historical and mythological narratives
moral and intellectual themes
geographicFocus Britain
linked to: Great Britain

France
Italy
hasAlternativeName Grand Manner painting
Grand Style
hasKeyFigure Angelica Kauffman
Benjamin West
Gavin Hamilton
Henry Fuseli
John Singleton Copley
Sir Joshua Reynolds
linked to: Joshua Reynolds
influencedBy Annibale Carracci
Nicolas Poussin
Raphael
Renaissance painting
classical antiquity
mainSubject history painting
mythological painting
portrait painting
relatedConcept academic hierarchy of genres
history painting hierarchy
timePeriod 18th century
early 19th century
usedFor aristocratic portraiture
state portraiture

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Joshua Reynolds movement Grand Manner
Portrait of Samuel Johnson movement Grand Manner
Discourses on Art keyConcept Grand Manner