Autore
Gita May
Editore
Acadèmie Royale de Belgique
Luogo di pubblicazione
ISBN
Pagine
3200
Dimensioni
22 x 14
Lingua
Anno pubblicazione
2005
Rilegatura
Illustrazioni
18 b/n 16 col
The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (17551842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigée Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Bruns portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world.