Summary
Michael Levey: Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789.
Art monograph Painting and Sculpture in France 1700 – 1789 (Painting and Sculpture in France 1700 – 1789) by Michael Levey (Wimbledon 1927 – 2008) - director of the National Gallery in London and expert on painting and art of the XVIII. century - is one of the selected overviews published by The Yale University Press on European stylistic formations intended for art lovers and experts who want to be introduced to the issues of various periods, countries and schools.
"Michael Levey in this book provides an extremely professional and comprehensible overview of the period that begins with the sumptuous palette of Rococo and Antoine Watteau's fêtes galantes, flows in frivolous sensuality until the ancien régime is decapitated and driven out by revolution. A grand finale - Jacques-Louis David - rejects fluttering lightness in exchange for classicism and serious historical painting." (Prof. Sanja Cvetnić, PhD)
"Michael Levey's book is written with a typical English sense of synthesis, covering the entire century of artistic creation in France between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the end of the Bourbon dynasty at the dawn of the French Revolution. It is characterized by erudition and a good knowledge of individual artists and artistic phenomena." (Prof. Dino Milinović, PhD)
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