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Images of Military Men in Joshua Reynolds' Oeuvre

Student: Sitnikova Yulia

Supervisor: Elena Sharnova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History of Arts (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine Joshua Reynolds’ portraits of military personnel, to identify the features of their image as soldiery in his art works and to review the the features of his approach to painting military men. The objects of this research are the portraits of different periods of his art career and representing men of various ranks; these works are divided in two groups of ceremonial and half-length portraits. It is done by using several required research methods: formal stylistic, descriptive, iconographic and comparative research techniques. Upon examination of these paintings, it becomes clear that Reynolds had an original principles of depicting military men, which formed due to historical and artistic specificities of the epoch and that varied in accordance with the person’s status field of activity, the type of composition and Reynolds’ stylistic evolvement.

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