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The society portrait : painting, prestige and the pursuit of elegance
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The society portrait : painting, prestige and the pursuit of elegance

Author: Gabriel Badea-Păun
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gabriel Badea-Păun
ISBN: 9780500238424 0500238421
OCLC Number: 185155882
Notes: Published simultaneously in New York by Vendome Press under title: The society portrait: from David to Warhol.
Description: 223 p. : ill. (mostly col.), ports. (mostly col.) ; 34 cm.
Contents: Portrait: between reality and the ideal, truth and beauty -- Renaissance of a genre -- Splendors of the Second Empire -- Realism verus Impressionism -- The Belle Époque: portraiture at its zenith -- Decline of a genre.
Responsibility: Gabriel Badea-Päun ; foreword by Richard Ormond.

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