Realism and role-play : the human figure in French art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain /

"After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turned their attention to their fellow humans, to nobles and beggars seen on the streets of Paris, to courtesans standing at their windows, to vendors a...

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Main Author:	Knowles, Marika Takanishi (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2020.
Series:	University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.
Subjects:	Human beings in art. Figurative art, French > 17th century. Social status in art. Role playing in art. Figurative art, French. 1600-1699