Hardbound
1995 · New Haven, Conn
by Merot, Alain
New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1995. Hardbound. VG/VG- (slight wear to dj and cover boards, small stains inside front cover, otherwise interior is clean and tight). Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, color pictorial dustjacket. 323 pp., 343 color and bw plates. This richly illustrated panorama of seventeenth-century French painting surveys the works of Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard, and other great and little-known artists. It places this art in relation to literary, political, philosophical, and social developments of the period; considers the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648; discusses the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments; explores issues of status, patronage, and connoisseurship; and reexamines the notion of a "French School" of painting, first proposed by the theorist Roger de Piles in 1699.
(Inventory #: 117415)