The History of Painting From the Fourth to the Early Nineteenth ..., volume 2
The History of Painting From the Fourth to the Early Nineteenth ..., volume 2
Richard Muther
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He had also a fine taste for pretty coiffures, for those simple wavy modes of dressing the hair which succeeded the majes- tic arrangement of the age of Lx)uis XIV. In the application of beauty spots, and the wearing of pearls and delicate diadems, he was a past master. Often he painted the ladies in fragrant, transparent robes, through which a leg or breast peeped forth, and in- scribed them Diana or Musidora. Louis Tocqu^, his stepson, carried to barbaric Rus- sia something of the splendour o...f the Rococo, and Robert Toumi^res introduced the mode of medallions and of delicate miniature portraits. But far richer in consequence was the inspiration that came from a Venetian artist. Under Watteau's portraits we find Digitized by VjOOQIC followers ot TPUatteau 693 one of a lady upon a background of roses — Rosalba Carriera, whose beautiful name and rosy art he in- dicated by a symbol. This lady played an important part in the history of art during the eighteenth century; for she invented pastel painting.
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