A Concise History of French Painting

296 Pages·1971·34.076 MB·English

by  Edward Lucie-Smith

A
Concise History of
French Painting

A
Concise History of
French
Painting
Edward Lucie-Smith
Praeger Publishers
New York Washington
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Published in the United States ofAmerica in 1971
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© 1971 in London, England, by Thames and Hudson Ltd
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Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 76-135514
Printed in Great Britain
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Contents
CHAPTER ONE
The Middle Ages
CHAPTER TWO
3I
Renaissance Fantasy
CHAPTER THREE
5I
Painters ofReality
CHAPTER FOUR 71
In Arcadia
CHAPTER FIVE 9
The Sun King
CHAPTER SIX II7
Fetes Champetres
CHAPTER SEVEN I33
The Feast ofPleasure
CHAPTER EIGHT I55
A Moral Climate
CHAPTER NINE I73
Roman Virtue
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CHAPTER TEN 189
Romantic Passion
CHAPTER ELEVEN 209
The Triumph ofLigh:
CHAPTER TWELVE 239
Symbolists and Modernists
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 26
The School ofParis
Bibliography 280
List ofIllustrations 281
Index 286