Session I: The beginning of the end. Hedonism and revolution in 18th-century French painting
- For:
- General public Friends
- Time:
Online modality, Fridays from 17.30 to 18.45 / In-person modality, Sundays from 12.00 to 13.15
- Place:
- Auditorium / Online
- Price:
Complete cicle:
Friends of the museum: €120
General public: €170Individual session:
Friends of the museum: €25
General public: €35
Booking for Friends of the museum opens on 11 September and 15 September for general public (online and on tel. +34 917 911 370, from 10.00 to 20.00).
This session analyses how a decorative and whimsical aesthetic was also an expression of subjectivity and the affirmation of the individual, a glimpse of a spirit of freedom that fuelled the revolutionary changes of the century. It also addresses the melancholic "fêtes galantes" and scenes that celebrated bourgeois private life, the salons and salinières, and the Enlightenment sensibility that promoted a fascination with nature and ruins, focusing on artists such as Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Fragonard and Vernet.
Course leader: María Cunillera.