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Visuelle und verbale Konzeptualisierungen von Trauer in einer Umbruchsituation: Allan Ramsay skizziert sein totes Kind
(2015)
The British painter Allan Ramsay’s physiognomic sketch of his first son, deceased at the age of 14 months in 1741, can provide some insight into the shift of emotional response towards death during the eighteenth century. Although never used for the execution of an autonomous painting according to available visual conventions, Ramsay directed the attention of his conversation partners to the image, apparently in an attempt to claim a stoic firmness of character for himself modelled on prototypes found in the tradition ...