Year
2024
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Language
English
Pages
15
ISBN
978-9-04855-675-5
Last Update
29-Oct-2024
Keywords
Art & Art History
“Voilà un juif de Rembrandt” (Just look at that Rembrandt Jew). The writer was pointing at a Jew not in a work by Rembrandt in the seventeenth century, but in the streets of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.
That writer was Charles Blanc (1813–82), the most prestigious art historian, art critic and arts official of his time in France. Twice, from 1848 to 1851 and from 1870 to 1873, he was director of the Arts Administration of the French government. He wrote reviews of books and exhibitions for prestigious periodicals and was a founder of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts,...
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