The Art of Pleasing the Eye : Portraits by Nicolas de Largillierre and Spectatorship with Taste for Colour in the Early Eighteenth Century

The Art of Pleasing the Eye : Portraits by Nicolas de Largillierre and Spectatorship with Taste for Colour in the Early Eighteenth Century

This study examines the interaction between portraits by the exponent of French colourist painting Nicolas de Largillierre (1656–1745) and elite spectatorship in the early eighteenth century as enactment of the idea of painting as an art of pleasing the eye. As developed in the theory of art of Roge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roussinova, Roussina
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik 2015
Subjects:
spectatorship
pleasure
meaning
body and mind
senses
illusion
imagination
touch
colour
attention
attraction
detail
display
portraiture
art theory
amateur
conversation
honnêteté
performativity
Nicolas de Largillierre
Roger de Piles
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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-314-4

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