- Title :
-
L'affaire Greuze and the sublime of history painting
- Author :
- KAHNG, Eik ;
- Publication year :
-
2004
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- Greuze's failed attempt to be received into the Académie Royale as a history painter serves as pivot for a central transition in the 18th-c. conception of history painting. His reception piece, Septimius Severus <Paris, Louvre>, mobilized a new model of psychological identification originating in the theatrical realm. The painting emulated celebrated examples of the dramatic sublime associated with Corneille, which were grafted onto an 18th-c. perception of Poussin. This new version of the sublime of history painting is also shown to inform Fragonard's masterpiece Coresus and Callirhoe <Paris, Louvre>, as well as the brilliant ekphrasis performed on this work by Denis Diderot. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 11 ill. (3 col.) ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Corésus et Callirhoé ; Critique d'art ; Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 ; Fragonard, Jean Honoré, 1732-1806 ; France ; Greuze, Jean Baptiste, 1725-1805 ; Iconographie ; L'Empereur Sévère reproche à Caracalla, son fils, d'avoir voulu l'a ; Paris (FRA), Musée national du Louvre ; Peinture ; Peinture d'histoire ; 1700-1800 ;
- Descriptors :
- Art criticism ; Coresus and Callirhoe ; Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 ; Fragonard, Jean Honoré, 1732-1806 ; France ; Greuze, Jean Baptiste, 1725-1805 ; History painting ; Iconography ; Painting ; Paris (FRA), Musée national du Louvre ; Septimius Severus Reproaching Caracalla, His Son, for Wanting to As ; 1700-1800 ;
- Document type :
- Article ;
- Source :
-
The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.), 2004, 86, 1, Mar
- INIST identifier :
- 24876462 ;
- ISSN :
- ISSN 0004-3079 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
College Art Association of America., New York, NY
- Publisher country :
- UNITED STATES ;
