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The publication
This volume aims to chart all the different places, people and
issues that shaped artistic production between the 1740s and the
French Revolution. The art of that period exploited both the technical
and theoretical ideas offered by scientific research and the extraordinary
expansion of geographic knowledge. The thesis this book endeavors
to demonstrate is that the inception of the modern age, marked by
the emergence of a sec-ular culture, had already begun in the early
decades of the XVIII century and involved the world of culture in
a general process of secularization. The great depiction of histo-ry,
divine incarnation and the sacredness of the monarchy had lost credibility
and was replaced by an art that was receptive to the most disparate
subjects - an art designed to stimulate sensuality and to create
very paradises. A development which brought no lit-tle unease in
its wake. Theevents of the XVIII century witnessed an unprecedented
spread of culture, with Rome acting as the focus for an incomparable
variety of visual stimuli.
The Author
Orietta Pinelli Rossi is an Associate professor of the History
of Modern Art at the Faculty of Literature of ‘La Sapienza’ University
in Rome. She also teaches Museography at the ‘School of Specialization’
in Medieval and Modern History.
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