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French art of the eighteenth century : the Michael L. Rosenberg lecture series at the Dallas Museum of Art / edited by Heather MacDonald ; with contributions by Philip Conisbee, Amy Freund, Deborah Gage, Mary Tavener Holmes, Eik Kahng, Alastair Laing, Kathleen Nicholson, Anne L. Poulet, Aileen Ribeiro, Mary D. Sheriff, Susan L. Siegfried and Christoph Martin Vogtherr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rosenberg, Michael L., 1947-2003--Art collections.
- Rosenberg, Michael L.
- Art, French--18th century.
- Art, French.
- Art--Private collections--Texas--Dallas.
- Art.
- Art--Private collections.
- Texas--Dallas.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Dallas Museum of Art, Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presented in lectures at the museum by an impressive roster of scholars and curators of European art, combines close studies of individual paintings by such artists as François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Louis Leopold Boilly with rich accounts of the historical, cultural, and political climates of their time. The works, many of which have not yet been widely published, span elegant portraits, intimate genre paintings, erotic canvases depicting mythological themes, and bloody images of the hunt. Through careful reconstructions of the lives of these artworks--from their first audiences to their contexts of display--the essays in this book unfold the history of a century of French art"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Since 2004, the Dallas Museum of Art has been the repository of the renowned collection of eighteenth-century French art assembled by the late Michael Rosenberg. The long-term loan of these masterpieces greatly enhances the collection of European art at the Museum, and the series of scholarly lectures funded by the Foundation, the Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series, gives a powerful boost to its European art program. Those lectures, presented by top scholars in the field of European art history, are re-presented in this volume"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300220179
- 0300220170
- OCLC:
- 946481643
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