Hubert Robert: Painted Spaces of the Enlightenment - Rilegato

Radisich, Paula Rea

 
9780521593519: Hubert Robert: Painted Spaces of the Enlightenment

Sinossi

A study of the pre-Revolutionary French painter, Hubert Robert.

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Descrizione del libro

This study provides an analysis of works by one of the most important eighteenth-century French artists, Hubert Robert. The author discusses these paintings in the light of the architectural setting for which they were designed and the demands imposed by the patrons who commissioned them.

Contenuti

1. Introduction: Hubert Robert and la vie privée; 2. Making conversation: Hubert Robert in the salon of Madame Geoffrin; 3. Sanctifying circulation: Hubert Robert in the Archiepiscopal Palace of Rouen; 4. Performing the libertine: Hubert Robert in the Bagatelle; 5. Dining amid the ruins: Hubert Robert's Les Monuments de la France; 6. Epilogue: Hubert Robert and the Revolution.

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