Painting and sculpture in France 1700-1789 / Michael Levey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levey, Michael.

Series:

Yale University Press Pelican history of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, French.

Art, Modern--18th century--France.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--17th century--France.

France.

Physical Description:

318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]

Summary:

Genius and talent combine to render both brilliant and varied the image of painting and sculpture in France in the last years of the ancien regime. The outpouring of creative activity and of inspired patronage, both public and private was then unparalleled elsewhere. Gifted exponents of sculpture include the Coustou, Michel-Ange Slodtz, and Caffieri, besides the better-known Falconet, Pigalle, and Houdon: their often monumental work provides a salutary reminder of the seriousness of intention in an age often still stereotyped as frivolous and lightweight. In painting, Restout, Vernet, Oudry and others were appreciated at least as much as Boucher, and portraiture, genre, and still life were all well served. The era may have opened with Watteau and the fete galante, but it closed with a revival of history painting, and with an artistic revolutionary in the person of David. Bringing new insights and information to bear on the work of the great French artists and sculptors of the eighteenth century, Levey has created a book that is at once beautiful and instructive.

Notes:

"Some sections of this book were previously published as part one of Art and architecture of the eighteenth century in France by Penguin Books Ltd., 1972"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-310) and index.

ISBN:

0300053444

OCLC:

26586498