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品名（中）	展览“Stare”案例
品名（英）	Exhibition "Stare" Case
入馆年号	1959年，59.533.573
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Thomas Rowlandson【1757 至 1827】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1811
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 18 3/4 × 13 1/16 英寸 (47.6 × 33.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	作为罗兰森最热情的设计之一，这幅版画同时嘲弄了即将公开的展览和伦敦艺术机构。渴望观看皇家学院年度春季展览的游客们在斯特兰德萨默塞特宫艰难地穿过一个陡峭的螺旋楼梯。从1780年开始，这些展览在威廉·钱伯斯爵士（Sir William Chambers）宏伟的新古典主义建筑的大房间里举行，但要到达画廊，游客必须爬上三段又长又窄的楼梯——钱伯斯希望这是一种具有挑战性的方法，可以建议登上帕纳斯苏斯。罗兰森着眼于楼梯给双向步行带来的实际困难，想象了当一位身材魁梧的女士绊倒一只狗，然后像九头针一样撞倒她的登山同伴时产生的瀑布。大多数被掀翻的身体都是女性的，由于当时的女性没有穿较低的内衣，这种普遍的困惑让附近的男性在进入艺术领域之前就可以一窥女性的裸体。罗兰森将著名雕塑家西尔·约瑟夫·诺勒肯斯（左起，举着一个玻璃杯来观察一个堕落的美女）包括在内，暗示了活肉胜过艺术拟像的力量。即使是壁龛里的古典雕像卡利皮吉安的维纳斯，她的目光应该集中在她自己美丽的屁股上，她也抬起眼睛，对在理想化的环境中流动的人类喜剧微笑。
介绍（英）	One of Rowlandson's most ebullient designs, this etching simultaneously mocks the exhibition-going public and the London art establishment. Visitors eager to view the annual spring exhibition of the Royal Academy struggle to negotiate a steep spiral staircase at Somerset House on the Strand. Beginning in 1780, these displays were held in the Great Room of Sir William Chambers's grand Neoclassical building, but to reach the galleries, visitors had to climb three long, narrow flights – a challenging approach that Chambers hoped would suggest an ascent to Parnassus. Focusing on the practical difficulties the stairs presented for two-way foot traffic, Rowlandson imagines the cascade produced when a hefty lady trips on a dog, then knocks over her fellow climbers like ninepins, Most of the bodies upended are female, and since women at this date wore no lower undergarments, the general confusion grants nearby males a glimpse of female nudity before they even reach the art. By including the well-known sculptor SIr Joseph Nollekens (at the left, holding up a glass to inspect a fallen beauty), Rowlandson suggests the power of living flesh to trump artistic simulacrums. Even the Callipygian Venus, the classical statue in the niche, whose gaze should be fixed on her own beautiful posterior, has raised her eyes to smile at the human comedy flowing through the idealized setting.