title: Lust in Hogarth's 'Sleeping Congregation' : or, how to waste time in post-Puritan England
creator: Krysmanski, Bernd
subject: ddc-760
subject: Graphics arts, prints
subject: Great Britain, Ireland
subject: Artists, Architects
subject: Iconography
subject: Hogarth, William / Die schlafende Gemeinde
subject: Predigt <Motiv>
subject: Schlaf <Motiv>
subject: Satire
description: 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.
date: 1998
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8020/
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8020/1/Krysmanski_Lust_in_Hogarths_Sleeping_Congregation_1998.pdf
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-80205
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
language: eng