Author: Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Title: The Conversation Piece : Scenes of fashionable life
Description: London, United Kingdom, Royal Collection Trust 2009, 2009 Softcover, 192 pages, English, 210 x 250 mm, 14 Illustrations, black and white; 157 Illustrations, color, book is in perfect order !. ISBN 9781905686070. ¶ 'The Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in 17th-century Dutch painting, the genre was extended to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the 18th-century in the masterpieces created by Johann Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III. This new publication, the first on this subject for over thirty years, presents early Dutch and French genre paintings against their successors in the informal portraiture of Stubbs and Hogarth, as well as iconic works by Zoffany. It provides a unique opportunity to connect the study of 'the conversation' in 18th-century English art to its 17th-century European predecessors.

Keywords: 17th century ;


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