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vicarious experience
French Salon painting was permeated by the national sport of l’amour in very thin disguise. It can be said that Adolphe William Bourgeau, a master technician , allowed his patrons to participate vicariously without seriously compromising their respectable position as … Continue reading
Not in my salon
Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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