One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to
Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the fete galan
Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores e
Histories of artists’ personal possessions shed new light on the lives of their owners. Artists are makers of things. Yet, it is a measure of the disembodied