Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004234604)

In Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris, Rochelle Ziskin explores in depth two remarkable private gatherings generating significant art criticism during the middle of the eighteenth century. She demonstrates how the sites harboring them came to embody and disseminate their judgments. One politically active group assembled at the house Mme Doublet shared with amateur Petit de Bachaumont; at her "Mondays" for artists, Mme Geoffrin collaborated with the powerful lover of antiquity Caylus and amateurs including Mariette and Watelet. In focusing on official Salons of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, historians too often overlook the crucial role of these frequent, regular assemblies, where works of art were quite often first assessed and taste shaped.

This book will appeal to readers interested in eighteenth-century French artistic culture, journalism, and women's patronage. The painters discussed include Boucher, Van Loo, Charles Coypel, Cochin, Vien, Pierre, Lagrenée, and Hubert Robert.

Author: Rochelle Ziskin
ISBN-10: 9004234608
ISBN-13: 9789004234604
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.81d