As copias de Veronese por François Boucher, do acervo do Museu de Arte de São Paulo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The main aim of this study is the anaIysis of both the historicaI and the artistic context of production of two paintings beIonging to the Art Museum of São Paulo. They are copies, painted by François Boucher (1703-1770), of previous paintings by PaoIo Veronese (1528-1588): Hercules between Vice and Virtue and Allegory of Wisdom and Strength. The originaIs were painted around 1576. Nowadays theyare at the Frick Collection in New Y orIe. The copies painted by Boucher were made while the originaIs were at the Collection ofthe Regent ofFrance. In this way, they are dated to the years around 1752. The 18th century copies of Veronese s paintings should be set within a context of European reappraisal of 16th century venetian painting. This reappraisal happened through Sebastiano Ricci s retaken of 16th century venetian masters poetics and through the irradiation ofRubens paintings, which happened in 18th centuty France through artists like Watteau, Coypel and La Fosse. The debates that took place in the French Academy, regarding the supremacy either of the line or the color, and the admiration that Ruben s works received, made it possible, in 18th century Paris, to happen the rediscovery of venetian chromatic sensibility and of its Renascence masters poetics. "Collecting" and the accessibility to these paintings by french artists of the 18th century were other essential factors for these rediscoveries. In this context, Boucher s copies have a paradigmatic character. French painting of the second half of the 18th century would go through very different paths

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pintura - italia pintura - frança

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