Le sujet s’inscrit dans le thème transversal et séduisant du voyage, de l’Italie dans toute sa diversité archéologique, urbaine, insulaire… à la fin du siècle des Lumières.
Continue reading ...With entries on more than 480 paintings and 250 drawings, this magnificent two-volume set provides the most complete examination to date of Batoni’s entire oeuvre.
Continue reading ...As well as placing the Sixtus V cabinet within the contexts of Roman manufacture and English collecting, the book brings to life its Roman provenance and its subsequent residence at Stourhead after the banker Henry Hoare bought it in about 1740.
Continue reading ...Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
August 10, 2013 – February 24, 2014
European art of the 18th century increasingly emphasized civility, elegance, comfort, and informality. During the first half of the century, the Rococo style of art and decoration, characterized by lightness, grace, playfulness, and intimacy, spread throughout Europe.
Continue reading ...The binomial art-money, nowadays even obvious, existed in the past as well, although through partially different forms and mechanisms.
Continue reading ...National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
20 February-30 May 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
12 October 2010-2 January 2011