David Irwin, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Aberdeen, is an authority on the art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His books include English Neoclassisal Art, Winckelmann: Writings on Art and John Flaxman.
Neoclassicism was the favourite style of Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson, and made Josiah Wedgwood’s fortune. The most pervasive style in the history of European art, it was deployed in the design of houses, churches,...
