ISBN  9788419036827
Autor  MARC FUMAROLI
Editorial  ACANTILADO
Categoria  Historia
Condicion  Nuevo
In this lucid essay the erudite French essayist analyzes the work of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun one of the most brilliant and ignored painters of the last pre-revolutionary decades in France. A masterful portraitist "capable of combining faithful resemblance with impalpable idealization" Vigée Le Brun was the ally that Marie Antoinette chose to offer a human and worthy image of that mundus muliebris that she represented and that supposedly corrupted the prestige and the authority of monarchs by dint of effeminating them. A fascinating story that recreates with magnificent precision the virulent awakening of a political moral and social misogyny that made Queen Marie Antoinette and her official portrait painter scapegoats..