Ornament of the Academy
Academician Marc Fumaroli, president of the Amis du Louvre, is a distinguished scholar and essayist, whose writings on 17th-century art reveal a profound knowledge of its cultural context, writes Robert Oresko.
Robert Oresko, Monday, 25th August 2008
Notes
1 Fumaroli’s theatrical criticism is collected and reprinted in Orgies et féeries (Paris, 2002), with a preface by a fellow academician, René de Obaldia. The title of this collection derives from that of a review of Arrabal’s ‘Le Labyrinthe’: ‘Orgie, délire et féerie théatrale’ (1967).
2 This seminal work has been reprinted in L’École du silence: le sentiment des images aux XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1994), the entire collection dedicated to the memory of René Huyghe (1906-1997), who held the chair of Psychology of Art (‘les arts plastiques’) at the Collège de France
3 These similarities are most obvious in the collection Exercises de lecture: De Rabelais à Paul Valéry, Paris, 2005.
5 Marc Fumaroli: a distinguished place in the Republic of Letters
6 St Francesca Romana Announcing to Rome the End of the Plague by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), 1657. Oil on canvas, 121 x 102 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris
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