Here, imagined by a late 18th century painter,
A Young Woman Surprised by a Storm
(1799, Brooklyn Museum).
This is pure terror, an allegory of the revolutionary period.
There,
Les Amoureux
, depicted by Émile Friant in 1888 (Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy), look at each other tenderly.
Sweet image of a France united in the Republic...
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Georges Vigarello thinks so and gives the feeling to the Marmottan Monet Museum, where he was invited to design an exhibition on this theme.
80 paintings, graphic works and some sculptures
This director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, an eminent historian of representations of the body, extends in 80 paintings, graphic works and a few sculptures selected with the art historian Dominique Lobstein, the
History of emotions :
three volumes published in Le Seuil in 2016 and sum of which he edited with his peers Alain Corbin and Jean-Jacques…
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