The Age of Enlightenment, Volume 2Barnes & Noble Books, 1980 |
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Page 52
... French Rococo style spread quickly to Russia , Austria , Spain , N. Italy and above all to Germany . Frederick the Great , like the other European rulers , enticed a number of French artists and craftsmen to work for him and modelled ...
... French Rococo style spread quickly to Russia , Austria , Spain , N. Italy and above all to Germany . Frederick the Great , like the other European rulers , enticed a number of French artists and craftsmen to work for him and modelled ...
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... French literary classicism was based . Torquato Tasso ( 1544–95 ) . Italian poet . Patronized for a time by the d'Este court and subsequently imprisoned for seven years , his best known works are the narrative poem Rinaldo ( 1562 ) and ...
... French literary classicism was based . Torquato Tasso ( 1544–95 ) . Italian poet . Patronized for a time by the d'Este court and subsequently imprisoned for seven years , his best known works are the narrative poem Rinaldo ( 1562 ) and ...
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... French collectors . Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg ( 1740-1812 ) Swiss - German painter and graphic artist . Apelles ( fourth century B.C. ) and Zeuxis ( second half of fifth century B.C. ) were two of the most esteemed painters of ...
... French collectors . Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg ( 1740-1812 ) Swiss - German painter and graphic artist . Apelles ( fourth century B.C. ) and Zeuxis ( second half of fifth century B.C. ) were two of the most esteemed painters of ...
Contents
Laugier Essay on Architecture 1753 | 8 |
William Chambers On Civil Architecture 1759 1791 | 24 |
James Stuart | 39 |
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Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas Charles Harrison,Paul Wood,Jason Gaiger No preview available - 2001 |