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100 1 $aLago, Mary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78083047
245 10 $aChristiana Herringham and the Edwardian art scene /$cMary Lago.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axvii, 323 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-310) and index.
520 $aChristiana Herringham (1852-1929), an expert copyist of the Italian Old Masters, was an extraordinary and accomplished woman. Her achievements required a delicate balance, for she had to negotiate old Victorian restrictions in order "to find and fortify a place for herself" in the male-dominated spheres of fine-art administration and public service.
520 8 $aLady Herringham arrived on the Edwardian art scene with a translation of Il Libro dell' Arte o Trattato della Pittura, Cennini's fifteenth-century handbook on fresco and tempera. It aroused new interest in those techniques and led to the founding of the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901. To preserve Britain's art heritage from buyers abroad, she provided the money that launched the National Art Collections Fund in 1903, creating what is still a vital and authoritative voice in Britain's cultural life.
520 8 $aHer work as the only woman on the NACF's first executive committee prepared her to assist in founding the India Society, which urged respect for indigenous Indian traditions of the fine arts and encouraged appreciation for them in England.
520 8 $aHer concern for undervalued art led her to India to copy the Buddhist wall paintings in the Ajanta caves near Hyderabad. Her copies are the only color record of their condition during those years. Sadly, as she returned from India in 1911, Lady Herringham began to suffer from delusions of pursuit and persecution and withdrew to an asylum, where she remained until her death.
520 8 $aThere were then no satisfactory explanations for her symptoms, only the Victorian medical premise that insanity was an extension of physical illness.
600 10 $aHerringham, Christiana Jane Powell,$cLady,$d-1929.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95010704
650 0 $aArt patrons$zEngland$vBiography.
600 10 $aHerringham, Christiana Jane Powell,$cLady,$d-1929$xFriends and associates.
700 1 $aHerringham, Christiana Jane Powell,$cLady,$d-1929.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95010704
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