L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques the explosion of Vesuvius covered

the explosion of Vesuvius covered this luminous and tranquil natural setting with a shroud of ash

Olga Rozanova

the beauty that emanate from it

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

Two indexes complete the collection

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques the explosion of Vesuvius coveredUnder 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,