Elements of Life, The Green building The three pigs are in

The three pigs are in their houses

Often more political than artistic

and in that of their ambivalent heirs

phenomenon has been remarkable

constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969

Elements of Life, The Green building The three pigs are inIn this ambitious study, Richard Wendorf establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost completely unexplored. By focusing on the great age of English portraiture from the arrival of Van Dyck to the publication of Boswell's Life of Johnson the author shows that, despite their obvious differences, visual and verbal portraits often shared similar