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Author:

Fripp, Jessica L., author.

Title:

Portraiture and friendship in Enlightenment France / Jessica L. Fripp.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xvii, 260 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Portraits, French--18th century.
Portraits--History--France--History--18th century.
Friendship in art.
Enlightenment--France.
France--Intellectual life--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

Summary:

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France' examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from, and generated, new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic discourse, exhibition criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence. This study provides a deeper understanding of how artists took advantage of changing conceptions of social relationships and used portraiture to make visible new ideas about friendship that were driven by Enlightenment thought.

Series:

Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture

ISBN:

1644532018
9781644532010

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1157866602

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)