Krysmanski, Bernd
In: Art History, 21 (1998), Nr. 3. pp. 393-408
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Abstract
The author suggests that the overriding theme of the engraved version of The Sleeping Congregation is Hogarth’s post-Puritan view of the old vice of Acedia or indolence. It is shown that the print, in Hogarth’s typical irony, updates a long pictorial and literary tradition of sleeping during the sermon; sleep, the characteristic mark of indolence and connected with lustful thoughts, a vice a hard working and ambitious member of the rising middle-class like Hogarth would have little patience with.
Document type: | Article |
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Version: | Secondary publication |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2022 10:13 |
Faculties / Institutes: | Research Project, Working Group > Individuals |
DDC-classification: | Graphics arts, prints |
Controlled Keywords: | Hogarth, William / Die schlafende Gemeinde, Predigt <Motiv>, Schlaf <Motiv>, Satire |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sleeping Congregation / Acedia / Jonathan Swift / Joseph Addison / Aertgen van Leyden / preacher / sleeping in church / lust |
Subject (classification): | Artists, Architects Iconography |
Countries/Regions: | Great Britain, Ireland |