French painting in the seventeenth century

Author(s)

• Mérot, Alain

Bibliographic Information

French painting in the seventeenth century

Alain Mérot ; translated by Caroline Beamish

Yale University Press, 1995

Other Title

La peinture française au XVIIe siècle

Note

Bibliography: p. [305]-317

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This richly illustrated panorama of seventeenth-century French painting surveys the works of Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard, and other great and little-known artists. It places this art in relation to literary, political, philosophical, and social developments of the period; considers the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648; discusses the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments; explores issues of status, patronage, and connoisseurship; and reexamines the notion of a "French School" of painting, first proposed by the theorist Roger de Piles in 1699. Published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture

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Details

• NCID: BA27085686
• ISBN:
  • 0300065507
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: 324 p.
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 759.4