Salvator Rosa in French Literature


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" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.







The Creation of the Rococo (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The Creation of the Rococo Hotel de Mailly: Ceilings and arabesques designed by Berain. Berain arabesque engraved before 1 693. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)


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The basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.







Your Humble Servant


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Catalogue D'Estampes Anciennes Des Diverses Ecoles & Eaux-Fortes, Pieces Non Decrites,


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Catalogue d'estampes anciennes des diverses ecoles & eaux-fortes, pieces non decrites, maitres anonymes et monogrammistes, portraits, celebrites, par les meilleurs graveurs, serie d'artistes classes, topographie, vues, pieces historiques, drolatiques et curieuses, maitres du XVIIIe siecle, ecole moderne: eaux-fortes et lithographies, dont la vente aura lieu, apres deces de Mr Charles Le Blanc, ancien employe a la Bibliotheque imperiale, auteur du Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, de la notice de quelques copies troompeuses, etc., Hotel des Commissaires priseurs, rue Drouot... du mardi 1er mai jusqu'au mercredi 9 mai 1866... / Me Delbergue-Cormont, commissaire-priseur; [expert] M. Vigneres, Md d'estampes Date de l'edition originale: 1866 Sujet de l'ouvrage: Le Blanc, Charles (1817-1865) -- Collections d'art [Vente. Art. 1866-05-01 - 1866-05-09. Paris][Collection. Art. Le Blanc, Charles. 1866]Reference bibliographique: Lugt, 29102 Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr




Icons - Texts - Iconotexts


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The Choiseul Box


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