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The Book of Art, Vol. 5: French Art from 1350 to 1850
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1965
About the author
Michel Laclotte
73 books1 followerMichel Laclotte (27 October 1929 – Montauban, 10 August 2021) was a French art historian and museum director, specializing in 14th and 15th century Italian and French painting.
Laclotte championed the idea of turning Paris's gare d'Orsay into a museum, now the Musée d'Orsay. From 1978 he led the team that worked on the future museum's curatorial program until its opening in 1986.
During the 1980's, Laclotte was the director of the Louvre Museum in Paris who oversaw a period of massive change and renovation of that storied institution.
Laclotte championed the idea of turning Paris's gare d'Orsay into a museum, now the Musée d'Orsay. From 1978 he led the team that worked on the future museum's curatorial program until its opening in 1986.
During the 1980's, Laclotte was the director of the Louvre Museum in Paris who oversaw a period of massive change and renovation of that storied institution.
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October 21, 2022
This volume covers French art up to Impressionism. As you can imagine, there is still quite a lot of ground to cover. You’re likely to find many paintings you like and interesting tidbits of painters that interest you.
Jacques Louis David voted for death of Louis XVI and later imprisoned after the fall of Robespierre. In 1798 he met Napoleon and become a fervent supporter. No wonder he did this: “https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...”
It is thanks to Francois Boucher that we can see Madam de Pompadour (or for that matter her dog) looks like. “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_...” Boucher is a friend and faithful servant of Madam de Pompadour. He painted her 7 times!
Gericault who painted the “raft of the Medusa” (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raf...”) spent weeks preparing for the painting: interviewing survivor, building a model raft and studied corpse to the point, it was said, that his studio looked like a morgue.
Jean Francois Millet, was eldest son of a devout peasant family. You’d think you understand why he’s famous for his subject matter: (see “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fr...”). But after he attracted attention in the Salon, he was painting mainly erotic nudes. The dramatic change of subject and style happened in 1848, which eventually brought Millet great public success.
As usual in this series, there are just not enough color plates, too many black and white miniatures.
Jacques Louis David voted for death of Louis XVI and later imprisoned after the fall of Robespierre. In 1798 he met Napoleon and become a fervent supporter. No wonder he did this: “https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...”
It is thanks to Francois Boucher that we can see Madam de Pompadour (or for that matter her dog) looks like. “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_...” Boucher is a friend and faithful servant of Madam de Pompadour. He painted her 7 times!
Gericault who painted the “raft of the Medusa” (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raf...”) spent weeks preparing for the painting: interviewing survivor, building a model raft and studied corpse to the point, it was said, that his studio looked like a morgue.
Jean Francois Millet, was eldest son of a devout peasant family. You’d think you understand why he’s famous for his subject matter: (see “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fr...”). But after he attracted attention in the Salon, he was painting mainly erotic nudes. The dramatic change of subject and style happened in 1848, which eventually brought Millet great public success.
As usual in this series, there are just not enough color plates, too many black and white miniatures.
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