Salvator Rosa in French Literature

Salvator Rosa in French Literature
Author: James Patty
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813171938

" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Creation of the Rococo (Classic Reprint)

The Creation of the Rococo (Classic Reprint)
Author: Fiske Kimball
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781390926484

Excerpt from The Creation of the Rococo Hotel de Mailly: Ceilings and arabesques designed by Berain. Berain arabesque engraved before 1 693. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Beyond Babylon

Beyond Babylon
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2008
Genre: Art, Ancient
ISBN: 1588392953

This important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.

The Choiseul Box

The Choiseul Box
Author: Francis John Bagott Watson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1963
Genre: Miniature painting
ISBN:

Orestes

Orestes
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2013-08-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1627933212

Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

The Grosvenor Gallery

The Grosvenor Gallery
Author: New Haven, Conn. Yale University. Yale Center for British Art (utstilling)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN: 9780300067521