TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooke, Hereward Lester
ED  - National Gallery of Art
TI  - British painting: in the National Gallery of Art 
U1  - 759.2 C66b 
PY  - 1960///
CY  - Washington
PB  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - Exposiciones
KW  - PINTURA INGLESA
KW  - EXPOSICIONES
KW  - PINTURA
KW  - GRAN BRETAÑA
KW  - PINTURA MODERNA
KW  - SIGLO XIX
N1  - Contiene índice de artistas; Blake William -- Constable, John -- Crome, John ("Old Crome") -- Gainsborough, Thomas -- Hoppner, John -- Lawrence, Sir Thomas -- Morland, George -- Raeburn, Sir Joshua -- Romney, George -- Stubbs, George -- Turner, Joseph Mallord William
N2  - Britain, which throughout her long history has produced men of literary genius in such profusion, in the visual arts for centuries lagged behind her European neighbors. Although during the age of Chaucer, English, builders, stonemasons, stained-glass workers, ivory carvers and manuscript illuminators, as skilled as any in Europe, had created many works of art across the length and breadth of the land, this art was in large measure derivative from French and other continental artistic traditions. Partly because of the strength of this medieval heritage, which was combined with a persistent feudalism, a geographic remoteness on the periphery of European civilization, and a decline of the power and artistic patronage of the Church, England did not play a significant part in the surge of creative activity which marked the early Renaissance of other countries. During the age of Shakespeare English Painters were content to follow the time-honored customs of  of the manuscript illuminators using flat patterns of color, precise outlines, and stiff heraldic poses
ER  -