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The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel into the movie Barry Lyndon, released in 1975. Unlike the film, the novel is narrated by Barry himself, who functions as an unreliable narrator, perpetually boasting and not realising the bad light in which he casts himself.

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- The first was Harlot's Progress (1732).
- The second one was the sequel, a Rake's Progress, eight canvases telling the story of a young man, Tom Rakewell, who inherits the fortune his father had miserly accumulated by lending money. Tom wastes it on drinking, whores and other fashionable vices. He ends in prison for debts and finally, in a madhouse.

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We are going to analyse the first canvas of the sequel *Marriage à la Mode*, six canvases about the institution of marriage, based on wealth or birth, not on true love.

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He wrote a book THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY , published in 1753, which describes Hogarth's theories of visual beauty and grace in a manner accessible to the common man of his day. Among Hogarth's ideas of beauty was the theory of the Line of Beauty, a S-shaped curved line( serpentine line) that excited the attention of the viewer and evoked liveliness and movement. According to the painter the idea of beauty resides in a serpentine line.

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We are going to analyse the third canvas in the series, *The Tavern Scene*.
The sitters don't belong to upper classes but to middle and low classes.

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Hogarth also developed a new form of art in which not just one but a series of paintings depicted
and commented upon contemporary society.

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He went beyond portraiture and created a new type of portrait known as "conversation piece" or "portrait figures from ten to fifteen inches high, often in subject of conversation" (The Graham Children).

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William Hogarth was an English painter, satirist, and writer in the 1st half of the 18th century.