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Georgia Museum of Art offers intimate experience with French drawings from the Snite Museum of Art |
| August 21st, 2012 01:35:18 am |
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition “The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art” from Aug. 18 to Nov. 3, 2012. Organized by Cheryl K. Snay at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, this exhibition illustrates the history of French drawing from before the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648 through the French Revolution of 1789 and its subsequent reforms of the 1800s. It includes works by Simon Vouet, Antoine Watteau, Franois Boucher, Jean-Honor Fragonard and Jacques-Louis David. “Each of these drawings is exquisite in its own right, and as a collection, they offer a compelling overview of the French Academy, |
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