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Book Review
Painting and Narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin. Edited by Peter Cooke and Nina Lübbren
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 801
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Reviewer:
Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
Subjects
art literature:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas / Gauguin, Paul / Le Brun, Charles / David, Jacques-Louis / Delacroix, Eugène / Delaroche, Paul / Gérôme, Jean-Léon / Moreau, Gustave / Robert, Louis Léopold / Orsel, André Jacques Victor
dates:
1650-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Paintings
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / History paintings / Conferences / Essays / Critical Reception / Art criticism / Ancien Régime (France) / Second Empire (France: 1852-1870) / Literature in art / Theatre (discipline) / Historiography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero, by Eugène Delacroix. 1825–26. Canvas, 145.6 by 113.8 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Exhibition Review
Napoleon: Power and Splendour. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 676-678
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Reviewer:
Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
Subjects
art literature:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
artists:
David, Jacques-Louis / Gros, Antoine-Jean / Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Gerard, Francois Baron (1770-1837) / Rigaud, Hyacinthe / Isabey, Jean-Baptiste / Chinard, Joseph / Dufau, Fortuné / Regnault, Jean Baptiste
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Prints / Sculpture / Porcelain / Tapestries / Textiles / Silks / Costume / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (MO), United States / Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France
patrons:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
places:
United States / Richmond (United States) / Kansas City / Canada / Montreal / France / Fontainebleau
subjects:
French painting / French sculpture / Decorative arts / Politics / Diplomacy / First Empire (France: 1799-1815) / Patronage / Ancien Régime (France) / Ceremonies / Allegories / Iconography / Portraits / Family portraits / Sèvres porcelain / Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. General Armand-Samuel de Marescot with his wife, Cécile, his son, Antoine-Samuel, his daughter, Joséphine-Cécile, and his motherin-law, Marie-Charlotte d’Artis de Thiézac, by Fortuné Dufau. 1806. Canvas, 240 by 195 cm. (Private collection; exh. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA).
Attributed works:
16. Triumphal march of Napoleon to the Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Baptiste Regnault. 1804–05. Paper mounted on canvas, 52.4 by 93 cm. (Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; exh. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA).
Attributed works:
17. Etruscan Scroll Vase, called the Londonderry Vase. Sèvres Imperial Manufactory, after a design by Charles Percier and Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart père, decoration by Gilbert Drouet and Christophe-Ferdinand Caron. 1813. Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, gilding and ormolu mounts, height 137.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Book Review
Les Collections de Monsieur, frère de Louis XIV, Orfèvrerie et objets d’art des Orléans sous l’Ancien Régime, P. Micio
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 041
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Reviewer:
Baarsen, Reinier (Baarsen, Reinier)
Subjects
dates:
1650-1699 / 1700-1709
patrons:
Philippe I, duc d'Orléans, 1640-1701
subjects:
Collections, Private / Royalty / Art objects / Patronage / Silverwork / Jewellery / Gold
subjects:
Ancien Régime (France)
Book Review
L’avènement du plaisir dans la peinture française de Le Brun à Watteau
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 278
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Reviewer:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Delafosse, Jean Charles, 1734-1789 / Coypel, Antoine / Coypel, Charles-Antoine / Coypel, Noël-Nicolas / Boullogne, Louis, the younger, 1654-1733
artists:
Boullogne, Bon
dates:
1660-1719 / 1700-1799
print:
Eighteenth-century French art
subjects:
French painting / Art history / Biographies / Surveys / Ancien Régime (France) / Rococo / French
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L’avènement du plaisir dans la peinture française de Le Brun à Watteau | author: Gomez, Clémentine Gustin
Book Review
A God or a Bench: Sculpture as a Problematic Art during the Ancien Régime
11/2009 | 1280 | 151
Pages: 780-781
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Reviewer:
Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
Subjects
dates:
1750-1799
places:
France
print:
French sculpture
subjects:
French sculpture / Ancien Régime (France)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A God or a Bench: Sculpture as a Problematic Art during the Ancien Régime | author: Adam D , author: Weinshenker, Anne Betty
Illustrations
Attributed works:
48. Detail of the Mausoleum of the Dauphin and Dauphine, by Guillaume II Coustou. 1766–77. Marble. (Cathedral of Saint-Etienne, Sens).
Book Review
Art, Dance and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Régime
04/2001 | 1177 | 143
Pages: 228
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Reviewer:
Foster, Carter E. (Foster, Carter E.)
Subjects
places:
France
subjects:
Ancien Régime (France)
subjects:
Social history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art, Dance and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Régime | author: Cohen, Sarah R.
Book Review
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime
09/1992 | 1074 | 134
Pages: 601-603
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Reviewer:
Middleton, Robin (Middleton, Robin)
Subjects
artists:
Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas
dates:
1700-1799
places:
France
subjects:
French architecture
subjects:
Ancien Régime (France)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime | author: Vidler, Anthony
Book Review
Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the Ancien Regime
03/1991 | 1056 | 133
Pages: 204-205
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Reviewer:
Johns, Christopher M. S. (Johns, Christopher M. S.)
Subjects
dates:
1750-1849
places:
Italy / Rome
subjects:
Italian painting
subjects:
Ancien Régime (France)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the Ancien Regime | author: Gross, Hanns
Book Review
Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustre au XVIIIe siecle: avec un catalogue raisonne des livres illustres par Cochin 1735-1790 [and: Dictionnaire des editeurs d'estampes a Paris sous l'Ancien regime]
01/1989 | 1030 | 131
Pages: 42-43
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Reviewer:
Wrigley, Richard (Wrigley, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Cochin, Charles-Nicolas, II, 1715-1790
dates:
1700-1799
places:
France
places:
Paris
subjects:
Illustrated books / Catalogues
subjects:
Prints / Publishers
subjects:
Ancien Régime (France)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustre au XVIIIe siecle: avec un catalogue raisonne des livres illustres par Cochin 1735-1790 | author: Casselle, Pierre , author: Grivel, Marianne , author: Le Bitouze, Corinne , author: Michel, Christian , author: Préaud, Maxime
Book Review
Word and Image. French Painting of the Ancien Regime
12/1983 | 969 | 125
Pages: 762-764
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Reviewer:
Brookner, Anita (Brookner, Anita; Brookner, Miss)
Subjects
artists:
Watteau, Antoine
artists:
Le Brun, Charles
artists:
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon
artists:
David, Jacques-Louis
artists:
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste
dates:
1700-1799
places:
Paris / France
subjects:
French painting
subjects:
Ancien Régime (France)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Word and Image. French Painting of the Ancien Regime | author: Bryson, Norman