Rococo
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Holy Land treasures, with a side of modern Rococo: a visit to the Frick
On a merry and crowded December Saturday, I visited two great exhibitions at the Frick Collection in New York – a rare North American showing of historic church treasures and a clever contemporary take on Rococo painting.
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The Pastel Portrait Delights of Rosalba Carriera
Learn about Rosalba Carriera (aka the “Queen of Pastel”), her innovation in portraiture, and her distinctly feminine take on 18th-century pin-ups.
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Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun at the Met
My experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s major 2016 exhibition of works by Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun. Vigée Le Brun French Neoclassical and Rococo portrait painter and one of the first women to succeed as a professional portrait painter on a grand scale.
