title: Interior as a Scene in the Depictions of French Illustrators of Racine’s Works in the 18th Century: A Comparative Aspect
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metadata.value: Borshch, Elena V.
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metadata.value: 2023-08-09T18:54:50Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-09T18:54:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Borshch, Elena. “Interior as a Scene in the Depictions of French Illustrators of Racine’s Works in the 18th Century: A Comparative Aspect”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 13, no. 1 (2023): 128–146. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.106 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43655
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metadata.value: French literary illustration of the 18th century is studied from the point of view of depicting
  an interior as a locale. The problem of the influence of literary and visual sources on the
  formation of the image of an interior is studied through several series of illustrations for Racine’s Works in 18th century editions. The main sources of comparative research are the illustrations
  for J. Racine’s Berenice, engraved from drawings by French artists L. Cheron (1723),
  L.-F. Dubourg (1743), J. de Sève (1760), H.-F. Gravelot (1768), J.-J.-F. Lebarbier (1796). Reading
  Racine’s Berenice in French and Russian, reading critical works about “Racine’s space”
  helps to understand the image of locale in the playwright’s version. The events of Racine’s Berenice
  take place in the confined space of an ancient Roman palace. The author modernizes the
  locale, using the concepts of the French noble interior of his time — “cabinet”, “apartments”.
  The description of the scene has a minimum of detail, is contradictory and insufficient for
  literal depictions. The artists, following the example of the playwright, interpreted the scene in
  the spirit of modernity, but changed and supplemented the main and secondary details. As a
  rule, they depicted the reception area of the ceremonial apartments and accurately conveyed
  the styles of interior decoration (Grand style, Transition style, Neoclassicism, Directory style).
  The artists explained the episode and the play as a whole by means of compositional tools that
  had a wide semantic range. Comparison the illustrations among themselves and comparison
  the book engravings with architectural engravings shows the continuity of the artistic tradition
  and adherence to the academic rules of working with depiction. The artists repeated
  the compositions of similar illustrations and quoted the interior design projects of the 17th–
  18th centuries. The image of a locale in the illustration was directly dependent on visual sources,
  and not on the text. The method of depicting an interior in the illustrations was based on
  selective and arbitrary reflection of the text, actualizing the appearance of a locale, using the
  semantics of details and partial copying of samples.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: French illustrators
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: book illustration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: book engravings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interior depiction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: illustrations for J. Racine’s Berenice
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 18th century
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Interior as a Scene in the Depictions of French Illustrators of Racine’s Works in the 18th Century: A Comparative Aspect
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metadata.value: Article
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