Fragonard's Allegories of Love

Informationen zum Autor Andrei Molotiu received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has taught art history at the University of Rochester, Indiana University, and the University of Louisville, and has published articles on eighteenth-century French painting. Klappentext This lavishly illustrated book compares and analyzes the compositions, iconography, and sources of a series of Jean-Honore Fragonard's most striking works, in the context of ancient regime pre-Romanticism. Andrei Molotiu discusses the transcendental aspect of love in series and the concept of Romantic love and painting on the eve of the French Revolution. Zusammenfassung Jean-Honore Fragonard was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. His series of works known as the 'Allegories of Love' display an atmosphere of intimacy. This volume presents an analysis of the compositions, iconography and sources of the Allegories in their historical and artistic context.

Product details

• Authors: . Molotiu, Andrei Molotiu
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780892368976
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-897-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 267 mm x 19 mm
• Series: J. Paul Getty Museum; Getty Museum Studies on Art; J. Paul Getty Museum; Getty Publications –
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history