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  • Posterity, calumny, Rousseau and Diderot

    • August 3, 2019
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    Regularly during the radical Enlightenment of mid-eighteenth-century France was to be heard the uproar of bitter recriminations as Rousseau fell out with friends and allies.  One of his closest had been Denis Diderot who, in fact, Rousseau blamed for having led him to becoming a philosopher in the first place. In a fascinating article (approx.
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  • Boucher and Fragonard

    • June 29, 2019
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    “The criticism of Diderot and others stimulated artists to a new seriousness but did not change the pastel complexion of rococo overnight, as demonstrated by the works of Boucher and Fragonard in the Gallery, all done after 1750. "Boucher was influenced by the subjects and delicate manner of Watteau's fêtes galantes, which he had copied for
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  • Capturing Guillaime

    • June 22, 2019
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      As the novel picks up speed the audience and Casanova know that Gabrielle is in mortal danger.  In the pages above, we use a number of devices to play out this situation.  The setting is one of darkness, shadows and silence, the typical environment of ne’er do wells and evil deeds.  The first page
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