Classic Beauties
Artists, Italy, and the Esthetic Ideals of the 18th CenturyAmsterdam Hermitage
Sprache: Englisch. 224 PP. 160 Halftones, color. 280x240 mm
Museumshop De Nieuwe Kerk / Hermitage Amsterdam
Classic Beauties allows readers to share the adventures of the "Grand Tourists" and meet the leading Neoclassical artists of the day. Their accounts and the book's many illustrations, both of works of art and of contemporary tourist attractions, paint a vivid picture of a period in which the quest for classical beauty and the ideal nude was at the forefront of people's minds.