Painting imposes it.
And the honest man, often, is sorry not to acquire, during his life, the familiarity with this art which he nevertheless feels capable of ambitioning when it is a question of literary works or chapters of story.
An illustrious painting, if only because one would not be able to go to the museum every day, much less acquire it and feel it as one does with a book, keeps at a distance, throne in the Empyrean.
We must therefore thank Cécile Berly for generously extending her hand to us, by publishing
La Légèreté et le Grave - Une histoire du XVIIIe en tableaux
(Passés Composés).
The historian extracts painting from its splendid isolation.
Ten major works magnificently reproduced in the book - provided with a cardboard binding, a guarantee of robustness - are in turn described and analyzed.
Then the lives of their authors told.
The style is clear and precise, without jargon or pedantry.
See also
Gallimard publishes a complete catalog of Grand Siècle paintings from the Louvres
Cécile Berly also proposes to explain, with the help of each
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