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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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik
2015
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-123716 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-314-4 |