The Expression of the Passions: The Origin and Influence of Charles Le Brun's Conférence Sur L'expression Générale Et ParticulièreIn 1688, Charles Le Brun, a French academician, delivered a lecture on expression that was so popular it was published in sixty-three separate editions and influenced all discussion of the subject throughout Europe for over a century. This book reconstructs and translates the text of the lecture (badly garbled in all previous versions), explores the context in which it was conceived, delivered, received, and finally rejected, and reproduces the images that accompanied the lecture. |
Contents
PART | 1 |
Chapter 5 | 58 |
Chapter 6 | 68 |
Chapter 7 | 85 |
Epilogue | 101 |
PART II | 109 |
Translation | 125 |
APPENDICES | 141 |
The Sources | 156 |
Testelins Text on Expression | 163 |
Notes | 188 |
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Common terms and phrases
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