Lascivious Statues: Galatea’s Animation in Eighteenth-Century France
Taking up the popularity of the Pygmalion and Galatea myth in eighteenth-century France, Alicia will be looking at the replication of marble sculptures by (or inspired by) Étienne-Maurice Falconet in Rococo paintings of seduction and libertine novels.
Learn more »The Sofa: Furnishing Moral Tales in Eighteenth-Century French Painting
Sofas were a new and frequently scintillating novelty in eighteenth-century France, the object of attention by libertine writers and moralists, from the designers of fashion plate to the country’s leading painters and draftsmen.
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