Bøger af Patricia Mainardi

A rich overview of masterpieces from the original school of fine arts, with works from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

This 1993 text examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Tracing the history of the salon from the French Revolution to the 1880s, Patricia Mainardi shows that its contradictory purposes resulted in its collapse.