Dezallier d'Argenville's "Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres": a guide for contemporary collectors or a survey of the taste for paintings of the northern schools?

• Autores: Patrick Michel
• Localización: Simiolus: Netherlands quarterly for the history of art, ISSN 0037-5411, Vol. 34, Nº. 3-4, 2009-2010, págs. 212-225
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The writer discusses Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville's Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres (1745), which offers a panorama of painting from the late15th to the mid 18th centuries and describes the lives of nearly 250 artists from the three traditional schools— Italian, Flemish and French. He states, among other things, that the publication, d'Argenville's most significant work, attempts to readjust the taste of connoisseurs in favor of the French and northern schools and is a reflection of mid 18th-century tastes.