Tag: Rococo

  • The Pastel Portrait Delights of Rosalba Carriera

    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.

  • Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun at the Met

    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.

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