Sebastien Allard
Autor(a) de Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Enlightenment
About the Author
Obras por Sebastien Allard
Associated Works
Maestà di Roma: da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia: D'Ingres à Degas, les artistes… (2003) — algumas edições — 15 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Allard, Sébastien
- Data de nascimento
- 1967-10-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- France
- Local de nascimento
- Paris, France
- Educação
- Ecole Normale Supérieur (1988)
Institut d'études politiques (1991)
Ecole nationale du patrimoine (1995) - Ocupações
- Curator
- Organizações
- Louvre Museum
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (2018)
Prix de l'Essai
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 80
- Popularidade
- #224,854
- Avaliação
- 4.5
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
- Línguas
- 1
Recently, exhibition catalogues have moved away from presenting the works one by one, and describing each individually. Instead, paintings tend to be inserted as colour plates in the midst of essays, which frustrates me a little, because I like to know about the history and background of the particular picture that I have seen. On the other hand, it's also valuable to know the context, and any links that can be drawn between different pieces. "Citizens and Kings" admirably combines the two approaches, with short essays in the main body of the catalogue, and individual entries for each painting at the back in an appendix. It's therefore ideal for both the casual reader, and for someone who wants to focus more on a particular painting.
Finally, the quality of the reproductions is superb, and this is an excellent reference work for the period. There are a few minor errors - for example, I think that The Braddyll Family, by Reynolds, has been printed back-to-front - and Castiglione's "Cortegiano" is translated as "The Courtesan" rather than "The Courtier". But these are incredibly minor things, and overall the catalogue is a beautiful book, and a comprehensive, authoritative introduction to the portraiture of this period.… (mais)