L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques aim to reveal the career

aim to reveal the career of this illustrious figure

Avec un humour redoutable

Two indexes complete the collection

to discover the persistence of ancestral artistic traditions and to explain the underlying reasons for this

An ancient people from whom the Greeks borrowed the alphabet

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques aim to reveal the careerUnder 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,