Private salons and the art world of Enlightenment Paris / / Rochelle Ziskin.

• Superior document: Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, volume 63
• VerfasserIn: Ziskin, Rochelle, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023[; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 63.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) :; illustrations.

In Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris , Rochelle Ziskin explores in depth two remarkable private gatherings generating significant art criticism during the middle of the eighteenth century. She demonstrates how the sites harboring them came to embody and disseminate their judgments. One politically active group assembled at the house Mme Doublet shared with amateur Petit de Bachaumont; at her “Mondays” for artists, Mme Geoffrin collaborated with the powerful lover of antiquity Caylus and amateurs including Mariette and Watelet. In focusing on official Salons of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, historians too often overlook the crucial role of these frequent, regular assemblies, where works of art were quite often first assessed and taste shaped. This book will appeal to readers interested in eighteenth-century French artistic culture, journalism, and women’s patronage. The painters discussed include Boucher, Van Loo, Charles Coypel, Cochin, Vien, Pierre, Lagrenée, and Hubert Robert.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Rochelle Ziskin -- Copyright page / Rochelle Ziskin -- Acknowledgements / Rochelle Ziskin -- Figures / Rochelle Ziskin -- Maps / Rochelle Ziskin -- Abbreviations / Rochelle Ziskin -- Introduction: Two virtuoses , Mme Doublet and Mme Geoffrin / Rochelle Ziskin -- Chapter 1 Mme Doublet, Bachaumont and “the Parish” / Rochelle Ziskin -- Chapter 2 Shaping Taste, Academic Reform, and Saving the Louvre / Rochelle Ziskin -- Chapter 3 Politics, Art, Journalism, and Bonds of Friendship at the Maison Doublet / Rochelle Ziskin -- Chapter 4 Wednesdays and Mondays: Mme Geoffrin and Her bureaux d’esprit and des arts / Rochelle Ziskin -- Chapter 5 Paintings Made “Under My Eyes” / Rochelle Ziskin -- Chapter 6 Epilogue: Mme Geoffrin: Advocate and Liaison / Rochelle Ziskin -- Select Bibliography / Rochelle Ziskin -- Index / Rochelle Ziskin.