Noble Beasts – Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth–Century French Art - Amy Freund

How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of masculinity during the Enlightenment  Centering on animal bodies and assertive masculinity, the visual strategies of hunting art may appear incongruent with our understanding of Rococo aesthetics and the early Enlightenment. But these themes, embraced with enthusiasm by artists and patrons, inspired artworks in every genre and medium in eighteenth-century France. As the country expanded its colonial... Zobrazit více