William Hogarth Five Orders of Periwigs
William Hogarth Five Orders of Periwigs
Hogarth’s comparison of Palladio’s orders of architecture with fashionable wigs, satirizing both the absurd fashions of the day with the minute archaeological accuracy of ‘Athenian’ Stuart.
William Hogarth
William Hogarth, (born November 10, 1697, London, England—died October 26, 1764, London). The first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Best known for his MORAL and satirical engravings and paintings—e.g., A Rake’s Progress (eight scenes,1733).
His attempts to build a reputation as a history painter and portraitist, however, met with financial disappointment. His aesthetic theories had more influence in Romantic literature than in painting.
