L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques en passant par le perfide

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It will also allow us to better glimpse their artistic worlds

An ancient people from whom the Greeks borrowed the alphabet

the beauty that emanate from it

celebrates the resistance of the Egyptians against the Napoleonic armies

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques en passant par le perfideUnder the brush of the best painters, we have lost count of the bucolic scenes where shepherds and shepherdesses flirt, the boudoirs where languid sighs and lustful glances are exchanged, the alcoves where "the heart and the mind" (Crbillon fils, 1736) wander. However, in this ocean of images devoted to Love, we have hardly emphasized the audacity and originality, sometimes even the extreme license, of certain inventions. Only Jean Honor Fragonard,