- Beautiful guide to the famed Artists' Corner at St Paul's Cathedral -
Informative biographies of the artists commemorated at Artists' Corner -
Portable, attractive souvenir of Artists' Corner, in the same style as
Monuments of St Paul's Cathedral (2021) and Mosaics of St Paul's
Cathedral (2015) Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final
resting place for some of the greatest artists working in the United
Kingdom, including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the
19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from America and
Continental Europe who made Britain their home and helped to shape
national taste. Artists' Corner reflects a golden age of artistic
production, when the visual arts were central to British cultural pride
and identity, when the funerals of the cultural figures were occasions
of national mourning, and their achievements were marked with monuments
and enduring plaques. All of the painters and sculptors memorialized in
Artists' Corner are brought together in this guide, with references to
some of their master works which chart a trajectory from history
painting to the arrival of impressionism and abstraction in the 20th
century.
