This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Th

"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century.

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the e

How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteent

While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisc