Black Arts: Allegory, Alchemy, and Theurgy in the Enigmatic Drawings of C. F. de La Traverse

• Autores: Alisa Luxenberg
• Localización: Master drawings, ISSN 0025-5025, Vol. 49, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 225-248
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The evocations of alchemy, theurgy, and contemporary politics in the drawings of French painter Charles-Fraņcois de La Traverse have gone undetected. This is certainly due to a combination of La Traverse's enigmatic iconography and his ebullient style, which scholars have read as traits of the late Rococo (thus being distracted from any spiritual or intellectual content). The writer goes on to discuss evocations of alchemy, theurgy, and contemporary politics with reference to individual works.