Antiquity Rediscovered - Innovation and Resistance in the 18th Century 2010

 

While eighteenth-century art is often perceived as a progressive move from a taste for the lightness of rococo to the grandeur of classical style, this exhibition sheds light on the different experiments undertaken to regenerate artistic forms and themes.

Curator(s) : Chief curators: Henri Loyrette; Marc Fumaroli.
Guillaume Faroult, Musée du Louvre, Department of Paintings; Christophe Leribault, Musée national Eugène Delacroix; Guilhem Scherf, Musée du Louvre, Department of Sculptures.

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