Private salons and the art world of Enlightenment Paris /

Private salons and the art world of Enlightenment Paris /

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Author / Creator:Ziskin, Rochelle, 1954- author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Description:xv, 333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 1878-9048 ; volume 63
Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 63.
Subject:
Salons -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century.
Art and society -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century.
Art and society.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Salons.
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
France -- Paris.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13154403
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ISBN:9789004234604
9004234608
9789004526945
Language / Script:Current copyright fee: GBP22.00 74\0.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index.
Summary:"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. There works of art were quite often first assessed and taste shaped"--
Other form:Online version: Ziskin, Rochelle, 1954- Private salons and the art world of Enlightenment Paris Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004526945
Standard no.:9789004234604

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