French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

Tradotto da Caroline Beamish.

This richly illustrated panorama of seventeenth-century French painting surveys the works of Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard, and other great and little-known artists. It places this art in relation to literary, political, philosophical, and social developments of the period; considers the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648;

discusses the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments; explores issues of status, patronage, and connoisseurship; and reexamines the notion of a "French School" of painting, first proposed by the theorist Roger de Piles in 1699.

Alain Mérot is professor of the history of modern art at the University of Lille III. (T-CA+).

Autore/i Alain Mérot
Editore Yale University Press Luogo London
Anno 1995 Pagine 324
Dimensioni 24x30 (cm) Illustrazioni 144 ill. b/n, 199 ill. a colori n.t. - colors and b/w ills
Legatura tela ed. sovracc. ill. colori - hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione Nuovo - New
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 2000 (gr)
ISBN 0300065507 EAN-13 9780300065503