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John William Godward

John William Godward (1861 - 1922) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England, Italy.  John Godward is known for Female figure in landscape painting.

John William Godward's art is the punctuation mark of the so-called Victorian High Renaissance.  His Greco-Roman compositions reached maturity in the mid-1890s, more or less concurrently with the deaths of two of the movement's leading figureheads, Frederic, Lord Leighton and Albert Joseph Moore.   To be sure, Godward's more famous Victorian High Renaissance contemporary, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was still active in the 1890s, and would be through the first decade of the twentieth century. 

But Godward outlived them all, and continued to create his placid and wistful Mediterranean figure paintings through the tumultuous years of World War I and into the early 1920s.  As the last of his kind, and working in the face of the modern art movements that were overrunning Europe in the new century, Godward was an even greater anachronism than his mentors, and today, despite his prolific output over three decades, remains the High Renaissance artist most shrouded   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8463 characters.]  Artist bio

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