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      18th Century France18th CenturyPrints and DrawingsEtching
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      Art HistoryFrench artFormal AnalysisEugene Delacroix
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      RembrandtGanymedeJean-Honoré Fragonard
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The Garden of Love theme in art, traced from the Middle Ages--through Rubens, Watteau, and Fragonard--to Mozart's Nozze di Figaro. Illustrated. Originally a lecture for the Metropolitan Museum, NYC, later published as an essay here in the... more
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      IconographyMozartBaroque art and architectureAntoine Watteau
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      European StudiesFrench StudiesFrench artJean-Honoré Fragonard
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      Art HistoryMuseum StudiesPaintingItalian art
This short essay will elaborate on the developments that emerged following the ideals of the Enlightenment, and the increased influence of art and culture on society. During the eighteenth century, an intellectual movement called the Age... more
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      Art HistoryArtHistory of ArtNeoclassicism
The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard (Fig. 2, Appendix A) and The Seasons by Alphonse Mucha (Fig. 1, Appendix A) are both cited as representative of their style movements— French Rococo and Art Nouveau, respectively. In this paper, these... more
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Il s'agit de voir comment un imaginaire mondain, galant et rocaille de la Fontaine conteur, est construit par l'illustration de ses contes et nouvelles au 18e siècle. Pour cela l'article est à la fois une analyse des illustrations des... more
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      IllustrationRococo visual cultureJean-Honoré FragonardEisen
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      Etienne SouriauAntoine WatteauDIDEROTCastiglione Baldassarre
This essay looks at the painting "The Swing" by Fragonard as a representation of a sort of fairy tale of an animal bride. This cycle takes the picture out of an environment that, for all the hint of rebellion, is extremely limited in... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreFairytalesJean-Honoré FragonardRetábulo Rococó
This text is a preview of the English version of the introduction to Christian Rivoletti, Ariosto e l’ironia della finzione: la ricezione letteraria e figurativa dell’Orlando furioso in Francia, Germania e Italia (Venice: Marsilio, 2014).... more
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Il narratore rappresenta uno degli aspetti più innovativi e complessi del capolavoro ariostesco. Eppure, se ci chiediamo quando la figura del narratore sia stata rappresentata per la prima volta nella ricchissima tradizione figurativa... more
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      Eighteenth-Century French StudiesDrawingOld Master drawingsJean-Honoré Fragonard
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      18th Century French PaintingEighteenth-century paintingFrançois BoucherRococo visual culture
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      18th CenturyPaysageJean-Honoré FragonardAcadémie De France à Rome
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Review of  the exhibition "Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 8-December 3, 2017
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      Eighteenth-Century French Studies18th Century French Painting18th Century French ArtJean-Honoré Fragonard
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      Feminist Art HistoryFrench ImpressionismHistory of CollectingEdmond de Goncourt
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      Forgery, Fakery, Fraud18th Century FranceOld Master drawingsExoticism
The narrator represents one of the most innovative and complex aspects of the Orlando Furioso. Yet if we search for the first artistic depiction of this figure, we find that he appears quite late in the rich history of visual... more
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The fabulous rococo. The style developed during the reign of Louis XIV and the exhibition covers the end of his reign through that of Louis XVI, until neoclassicism was favored at the wake of the Revolution. The journey from the Sun King... more
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      Art HistoryArt HistoryArtFrench Revolution
The fabulous rococo. The style developed during the reign of Louis XIV and the exhibition covers the end of his reign through that of Louis XVI, until neoclassicism was favored at the wake of the Revolution. The journey from the Sun King... more
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      German StudiesComparative LiteratureFrench LiteratureGerman Literature
Textes réunis et présentés par DANIEL RABREAU et CHRISTOPHE HENRY. Les « Annales du Centre Ledoux », publiées sous l'égide de notre association, ont fait paraître leur tome VI chez William Blake & Co, un ouvrage collectif entièrement... more
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A review of an exhibition of Rococo and Neo-Classical painting from American collections.
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      Jean-Jacques RousseauDiderot, DenisAntoine WatteauFrançois Boucher
Vedute di Villa d'Este a Tivoli. Il Settecento
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Selon certaines habitudes visuelles occidentales fixes, le fond s'opposerait à la forme ou à la figure, l’avant au fond. Pour un tableau, une sculpture ou même pour une architecture, le rapport entre le fond et la forme qui s’y découpe... more
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      French art18th Century French PaintingTorquato TassoJean-Honoré Fragonard
Il ciclo di lezioni ripercorre, in ambito comparatistico e interdisciplinare, le tappe salienti della ricezione del capolavoro di Ludovico Ariosto nella letteratura, nella riflessione estetica e nelle arti europee.
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      Art Market18th Century French ArtJean-Honoré Fragonard
An exhibition dedicated to Fragonard's erotic inspiration
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      Eroticism18th Century French Literature18th Century French PaintingFrançois Boucher
Dans la France du XVIIIe siècle peinture et amour s'épousent. De la fin du règne de Louis XIV à la veille de la Révolution française, les peintres les plus brillants - Watteau, Boucher, Lancret, de Troy, Greuze et Fragonard - consacrent... more
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      Eroticism18th Century French PaintingAntoine WatteauFrançois Boucher
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      Old Master drawingsDIDEROTJean-Honoré Fragonard1769
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      Littérature FrançaiseBook IllustrationErotic LiteratureJean-Honoré Fragonard
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      Jean-Honoré FragonardPalais-RoyalMarguerite Gérard
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      Eroticism18th Century French Literature18th Century French PaintingBook illustration and Printed Images
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Survey of upcoming art exhibitions in Washington DC for Fall 2017
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      Jean-Honoré FragonardDutch Genre PaintingPierre-Auguste RenoirJan Vermeer
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on sexuality in French eighteenth-century painting
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      History of SexualityEighteenth-Century French StudiesFrench EnlightenmentJean-Honoré Fragonard
in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CLIV, n° 1307 (2012), p. 103-106
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      18th Century French Paintingmusée du LouvreJean-Honoré FragonardClaude-Prosper Jolyot De Crébillon
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      Eroticism18th Century French Literature18th Century French PaintingJean-Honoré Fragonard