Reynolds and celebrity: Ferrara is the setting for an enthralling exhibition on Reynolds and his sitters.(Book Review)

From: Apollo | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

It appears that media hype has been part of the British way of life for some time. This exhibition, beautifully staged at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, is about being famous for being famous. The inscription on Valentine Green's print of Reynolds's Self-portrait provides the baldest evidence for this. The portrait appears to have been painted to mark the Royal Academy's move to purpose-built premises in Somerset House in 1780 and to publish the message abroad Green was commissioned to make a fine mezzotint of the subject. The inscription, Reynolds's curriculum vitae, reads: ...

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