French Art: The Ancien Régime, 1620-1775Flammarion, 1994 - Art The first volume opens with the artifacts left behind by the earliest inhabitants of the area that forms modern France - prehistoric cave dwellers, Celts, Gallo-Romans, and Merovingians - which are examined in Part I, along with the stunning artistic achievements of Charlemagne and his Carolingian successors. Part II explores the development of monumental Romanesque and Gothic sculpture and architecture, as well as the growing importance of manuscript illumination, ivory carving, and precious metalwork. The late Gothic period is the subject of the last section, which concludes with the highly refined and stylized courtly art of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries - the final and perfect flowering of the medieval world. |
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... painting to overall decoration , a principle that would be followed throughout the centu- ry and beyond . Also worth noting is the hierarchical way the paintings were hung , the ranking of " genres " one over another . The hierarchy ...
... painting to overall decoration , a principle that would be followed throughout the centu- ry and beyond . Also worth noting is the hierarchical way the paintings were hung , the ranking of " genres " one over another . The hierarchy ...
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... PAINTING AND DECORATION Early in Louis XIV's reign , Roland Fréart de Chambray had written , " there is almost no one who does not have at least some inclination toward painting " ( Idée de la perfection de la peinture , 1662 ) . By ...
... PAINTING AND DECORATION Early in Louis XIV's reign , Roland Fréart de Chambray had written , " there is almost no one who does not have at least some inclination toward painting " ( Idée de la perfection de la peinture , 1662 ) . By ...
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... paintings of tools of the trade , two anecdotal subjects were often handled : " Dibutades Tracing the Portrait of a Shepherd " ( the supposed origin of painting ) and " Pygmalion and Galatea " ( sculpture ) . In both cases , love was at ...
... paintings of tools of the trade , two anecdotal subjects were often handled : " Dibutades Tracing the Portrait of a Shepherd " ( the supposed origin of painting ) and " Pygmalion and Galatea " ( sculpture ) . In both cases , love was at ...
Contents
A HEROIC ERA 16201660 | 98 |
A REGAL ERA 16601710 | 168 |
AN ERA OF GRACE AND CRAFT 17101775 | 244 |
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