Victorian aesthetics
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Victorian aesthetics refers to the 19th-century British artistic and cultural style characterized by ornate detail, moral didacticism, and an emphasis on sentimentality and decorum in literature, art, and design.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aesthetic movement
→
cultural style → historical artistic style → |
| appliedIn |
architecture
→
decorative arts → fashion → interior design → literature → painting → |
| associatedWithMovement |
Arts and Crafts movement
→
Gothic Revival → Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood → |
| characterizedBy |
complex patterns
→
decorum → elaborate ornamentation → moral didacticism → ornate detail → sentimentality → symbolic imagery → |
| contrastedWith |
Aestheticism
→
Art for art's sake doctrine → |
| emergedDuring |
Victorian era
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| emphasizes |
emotional expression
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moral instruction → social respectability → |
| hasPrimaryRegion |
Britain
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom → |
| hasTimePeriod |
19th century
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| hasTypicalMotif |
Gothic tracery
→
floral patterns → historical and medieval themes → religious symbolism → |
| influenced |
colonial British design
→
late 19th-century interior design → urban domestic architecture in Britain → |
| influencedBy |
Christian morality
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Romanticism → industrialization → middle-class values → neoclassicism → |
| namedAfter |
Queen Victoria
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| oftenExpressedThrough |
allegory
→
moralizing themes → narrative realism → |
| relatedTo |
Victorian architecture
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Victorian literature → Victorian morality → |
| values |
domesticity
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propriety → respectability → sentimental attachment → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Owen Jones
("Victorian decorative arts")
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influenced |
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Modernism
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opposedTo |