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Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning."
Augustus è un romanzo storico epistolare dello scrittore statunitense John Edward Williams, pubblicato nel 1972 per la Viking Press, incentrato sulla vita del primo imperatore di Roma, Ottaviano Augusto, dall'ascesa al potere fino alla morte [1]. È stata l'ultima opera di Williams pubblicata mentre era in vita, nonché l'unica ambientata ...
John Williams ci racconta il principato di Ottaviano Augusto e i fasti e le ambizioni dell’antica Roma attraverso un abile intreccio di epistole, documenti, diari e invenzioni letterarie da cui si scorgono i profili interiori dei tanti attori dell’epoca, i loro dissidi, le loro debolezze: l’opportunismo di Cicerone, la libertà e l ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019 to Sunday, September 29, 2019. Booking: No booking required.Cost: Normal admission charges apply. In partnership with Poole Museum and co-curated with David Boyd Haycock, this exhibition of the art of Augustus John looks in detail at his work, particularly in the decades between the two world wars. At his peak, John’s ...
Alongside Augustus John, the exhibition includes work by gifted Slade pupils Gwen John, Wyndham Lewis, William Orpen, James Dickson Innes and Derwent Lees, as well as their friends Jacob Epstein, Henry Lamb and William Rothenstein. Together their work includes some of the outstanding artistic achievements in twentieth-century British art.
Augustus John. John was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the third of four children. A brilliant student at the Slade School of Art (1894-98). He had also studied together with his sister Gwen John in Paris. He was associated with the New English Art Club and the Camden Town Group but remained largely independent from artistic trends and movements.
Upon his return home, Augustus John soon became the leading society painter in Britain, with a wide circle of famous friends whose portraits he painted ( Portrait of T. E. Lawrence as Aircraftman Shaw, 1935). He was awarded the Order of Merit for services in art in 1942. Augustus John was President of the Royal Society of Portrait between 1948 ...
