One of the great art museums of the world, the Art Institute of Chicago presents a collection spanning 5,000 years of artistic expression. Paintings, prints and drawings, sculptures, photographs, video, textiles, and architectural drawings and fragments are complemented by a year-round schedule of exhibitions. And there’s more. The museum presents programs-lectures, workshops, performances, symposia, travel, [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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A brief bio on Fragonard available at:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/f/fragonar/biograph.html
French Rococo painter whose most familiar works, such as The Swing (c. 1766), are characterized by delicate hedonism.
Fragonard was the son of a haberdasher’s assistant. The family moved to Paris about 1738, and in 1747 the boy was apprenticed to a lawyer, who, noticing his appetite for drawing, [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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This is an excerpt found in:
The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun
Translated by Lionel Strachey, 1903
CHAPTER 2 - UP THE LADDER OF FAME
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It was in the year 1779 that I painted the Queen for the first time; she was then in the heyday of her youth and beauty. Marie Antoinette was tall [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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The rest of the slides from the last lecture:
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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