Fragonard's Allegories of Love
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter whose late manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. A prolific artist, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings. The J. Paul Getty Museum's Fragonard masterpiece, The Fountain of Love, is part of a series of his most striking works called the Allegories of Love, exquisite paintings that convey an atmosphere of intimacy and eroticism. \ This lavishly illustrated book compares and analyzes the...
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This lavishly illustrated book compares and analyzes the compositions, iconography, and sources of a series of Jean-Honore Fragonard's most striking works, in the context of ancient regime pre-Romanticism. Andrei Molotiu discusses the transcendental aspect of love in series and the concept of Romantic love and painting on the eve of the French Revolution.
