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[caption id="attachment_9225" align="aligncenter" width="357"] HAMLETT Lydia, Mural Painting in Britain 1630–1730 : Experiencing Histories, Londres, Routledge, 2020, 184 p.[/caption]Présentation de l'éditeur : This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain. At the time, these were called ‘histories’. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as ‘history painting’ achieved the status of a sublime genre, any link with painted architectural interiors was lost. Whilst both genres contained historical figures and narratives, it was the ways of viewing them that differed. Lydia Hamlett emphasises the way that mural paintings were experienced by spectators within their architectural settings. New iconographical interpretations and theories of effect and affect are considered an important part of their wider historical, cultural, and social contexts.Lydia Hamlett is Academic Director in Visual Culture at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College.Index :Introduction: Re-experiencing British Murals1  Animating Histories2  Triumph and Return: Bringing the Gods onto Man’s Stage3  Murals and Metamorphoses4  Poetry, Painting, and Politics: The Early 1700s5  The Frenzied Age of Mural PaintingConclusion: Defining Mural Painting as a Genre