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Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris [Paperback]

Professor Thomas Crow (Author)

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Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (September 10, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300037643
ISBN-13: 978-0300037647
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

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After a long while of chewing on Crow's hundreds of proper names and knot of labyrinthine politics, I can now reflect upon the text with 20/20 hindsight and testify to its utility. Though I certainly didn't find it an easy read, being an undergraduate new to the subject, Crow's book did lay a solid foundation for my grasp of French painting. If you too are new to the material, it is probably best to forget about the names and focus on the general motions. The prose is dense and aims at a high level of reader: be prepared to navigate sentences of great length and complexity. Not for the faint of heart, but a vital groundbreaker for the student of French revolution, politics, and painting.

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AMBITIOUS painting most conspicuously entered the lives of eighteenth-century Parisians in the Salon exhibitions mounted by the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Read the first page

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Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Place Dauphine, Jacques-Louis David, Village Bride, Antoine Watteau, Color Plate, Corpus Christi, Academy of Painting, Palais Royal, Septimius Severus, Filial Piety, Madame Doublet, Old Regime, Father's Curse, Paris Parlement, Claude Gillot, First Painter, Pierre Crozat, Third Estate, Charles Coypel, Manlius Torquatus, Marcus Aurelius, Testament of Eudamidas, Wallace Collection

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