Art And Architecture Of The Eighteenth Century In France
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Author | : Wend Graf Kalnein |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0300060130 |
Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century Wend von Kalnein French architecture of the eighteenth century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe. This handsome book is a survey of the French architecture of the period. It begins with the origins of the 'style moderne' under the last years of Louis XIV, discusses the end of Rococo and the return to antiquity, and concludes with the Revolutionary architecture and the house of Madame Récamier. Kalnein describes the development of palace and hôtel architecture by the two great architects de Cotte and Boffrand, discussing such large urban projects as the reconstruction of Rennes and the Places Royales. He traces the return to antiquity (which began when the scholars of the Académie d'Architecture were sent to Rome), the revolutionary architecture with its grand, but never executed, projects, and the shift from neoclassicism to early romanticism. Kalnein also examines the decorative arts of the period, which became even more important than architecture in the Rococo period. Focusing on such architects as Boffrand, Gabriel, and Redoux, he shows how a study of their building decoration illuminates the evolution of 'style moderne,' the battle between Rococo and Neoclassicism, and the dissemination of French styles throughout Europe.
Author | : Wend von Kalnein |
Publisher | : Puffin Books |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary L. Myers |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Architectural drawing |
ISBN | : 0870996258 |
Author | : Richard Wittman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0429565917 |
This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the east facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon]. Depicting the passage of architecture into a mediatized public culture as a turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of the distinctly modern configuration of individual, society, and space that emerged during this period, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.
Author | : Heather Eleanor MacDonald |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300220170 |
"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"--
Author | : John Finlay |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2020-07-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1315467356 |
This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and images that characterized a direct engagement with the idea of "China." The central figure in this story is Henri-Léonard Bertin (1720–1792), who served as a minister of state under Louis XV and, briefly, Louis XVI. Both his official position and personal passion for all things Chinese placed him at the center of intersecting networks of like-minded individuals who shared his ideal vision of China as a nation from which France had much to learn. John Finlay examines a fascinating episode in the rich history of cross-cultural exchange between China and Europe in the early modern period, and this book will be an important and timely contribution to a very current discussion about Sino-French cultural relations. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual culture, European and Chinese history.
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : |
"This illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to the general art lover as to the specialist." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Rochelle Ziskin |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271037857 |
"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Philip Conisbee |
Publisher | : Ngw-Stud Hist Art |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
"Fifteen international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Jean-Antoine Watteau to Louis-Leopold Boilly. The essays represent a wide range of critical and historical perspectives, from traditional archival research to postructuralist criticism."--Page 4 de la couverture
Author | : Rolf Reichardt |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781861893123 |
The authors explore the complex, many-faceted visual culture of the French Revolution, which took place in a period characterised by the creation of a new visual language steeped in metaphor, symbol and allegory.