Download or read book Frederic Leighton written by Dr Keren Rosa Hammerschlag and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a timely reexamination of the late Victorian period’s most institutionally powerful artist, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag undertakes close readings of Frederic Lord Leighton’s paintings, sculptures, frescos and drawings, and situates them in the context of contemporaneous debates about death and resurrection in theology, archaeology and medicine. The author reconfigures what it meant to be not just a late-Victorian neoclassicist and royal academician, but President of the Victorian Royal Academy.