Eighteenth-century women painters in France

 

Although many critics applauded their new prominence, others lamented the immodesty of women who would display their skills so publicly. Indeed, pamphleteers frequently conflated the exhibition of these women’s paintings with the display of their bodies…

Always very well worth exploring – the Met museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History along with the usual wide range of linked resources – here

 

‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here.

 Long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.

 

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