L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques to discover the persistence of

to discover the persistence of ancestral artistic traditions and to explain the underlying reasons for this

celebrates the resistance of the Egyptians against the Napoleonic armies

Avec un humour redoutable

Two indexes complete the collection

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques to discover the persistence ofUnder the brush of the best painters, we have lost count of the bucolic scenes where shepherds and shepherdesses flirt, the boudoirs where languid sighs and lustful glances are exchanged, the alcoves where "the heart and the mind" (Crbillon fils, 1736) wander. However, in this ocean of images devoted to Love, we have hardly emphasized the audacity and originality, sometimes even the extreme license, of certain inventions. Only Jean Honor Fragonard,