L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques Olga Rozanova

Olga Rozanova

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It will also allow us to better glimpse their artistic worlds

An ancient people from whom the Greeks borrowed the alphabet

Avec un humour redoutable

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques Olga RozanovaUnder the brush of the best painters, we have lost count of the bucolic scenes where shepherds and shepherdesses flirt, the boudoirs where languid sighs and lustful glances are exchanged, the alcoves where "the heart and the mind" (Crbillon fils, 1736) wander. However, in this ocean of images devoted to Love, we have hardly emphasized the audacity and originality, sometimes even the extreme license, of certain inventions. Only Jean Honor Fragonard,