Vertiginous
Nicholas Penny, 12 December 1996
Grands Décors français 1650-1800
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,2 87844 023 4 Show More
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,
Chardin
by Marianne RolandMichel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,0 500 09259 1 Show More
by Marianne RolandMichel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,
“... with grotesques in 16th-century Italy and the style was especially associated with Raphael. Marianne RolandMichel’s monograph on Chardin is more orthodox in conception but also agreeably free of the obfuscations of current academic discourse. It opens with an account of his life and career as a Parisian ... ”