L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques Olga Rozanova

Olga Rozanova

sometimes offered and passed from hand to hand

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

An ancient people from whom the Greeks borrowed the alphabet

the beauty that emanate from it

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques Olga RozanovaUnder 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,