Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the e

Rochelle Ziskin explores two remarkable private gatherings generating significant art criticism during the middle of the eighteenth century, assessing how the s

A subtle and complex study of the Enlightenment, this book allows us to reflect on how nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars have constructed our views on

In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a rem

This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Th