The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti's"Storia del Restauro" have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises...

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in h...