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Many of the quotes in the text can be found in the following
anthology:
This is cited as [AT] in the text. In Section 3, the
translations of the quotes from J.-P. de Crousaz 1715
(Traité du beau) are by Katerina Deligiorgi.
Other useful anthologies include:
- Elledge, Scott and Donald Schier (eds.), 1970, The Continental
Model: Selected French Essays of the Seventeenth Century, revised
edition, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press; original edition
1960. (Scholar)
- Lecoq, Anne-Marie, 2001, La Querelle des Anciens et des
Modernes, Paris: Gallimard Folio. (Scholar)
- Lichtenstein, Jacqueline and Christian Michel, 2007–2015,
Conférences de l’Académie royale de Peinture
et de Sculpture, 1648–1793, Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris
éditions.
[Conférences 1648–1793 available online] (Scholar)
- Saint-Girons, Baldine, 1990, Esthétiques du XVIIIe
siècle: le modèle français, Paris:
Sers. (Scholar)
Primary Literature
- André, Yves Marie, 1741, Essai sur le beau, où
l’on examine en quoi consiste précisément le beau
dans le physique, dans le moral, dans les ouvrages d’esprit et
dans la musique, Paris: Guérin. (Scholar)
- Batteux, Charles, 1746 [2015], Les Beaux-arts réduits à un même principe, Paris: Durand. Translated as, The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle, James O. Young (trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198747116.book.1 (Scholar)
- –––, 1753, Cours de belles-lettres, ou Principes de la littérature (Principles of Literature), Paris: Durand. (Scholar)
- Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 1735, Meditationes
philosophicae de Nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus,
[Baumgarten 1735 available online] (Scholar)
- Blanchard, Louis-Gabriel, 1671, “Sur le mérite de la
couleur”, in A. Fontaine, Conférences inédites
de l’Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture,
Paris: Minerva, 1903; translation in [AT] by Katerina Deligiorgi. (Scholar)
- Bouhours, Dominque, 1671 [1705], Entretiens d’Ariste et
Eugène, Paris: Mabre-Cramois. Translated as The Art of
Criticism, 1705; reprinted Delmar, NY: Scholar’s Facsimiles
& Reprints, 1981. (Scholar)
- Cartaud de la Vilate, François, 1726, Essai historique et philosophique sur le goût, Paris: Chez Maudouyt. (Scholar)
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas and Jérôme Charles Bellicard,
1753, Observations upon the Antiquities of the Town of
Herculaneum, London: D. Wilson and T. Durham.
[Cochin and Bellicard 1753 available online] (Scholar)
- Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de, 1715, Traité du beau,
Où l’on montre en quoi consiste ce que l’on nomme
ainsi, par des exemples tirez de la plûpart des arts & des
sciences, Amsterdam: Chez François L’Honoré.
Part translated as “Treatise on Beauty” in AT: ch.
70. (Scholar)
- Dacier, Anne Le Fèvre, 1711, L’Iliade
d’Homère Traduite en François, Paris.
- –––, 1714, Des Causes de la Corruption du
Goust (On the Causes of the Corruption of Taste), Paris:
Rigaud. (Scholar)
- De Piles, Roger (trans.), 1668, L’art de peinture, de
Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy, Paris.
[De Piles 1668 available online]
- –––, 1673, Dialoque sur le coloris
(Dialogue upon Coloring), Paris: N. Langlois.
[De Piles 1673 available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 1708, Cours de peinture par principes
avec un balance de peintres, Paris: J. Estienne; translated as
The Principles of Painting, anonymous translator, London: J.
Osborn, 1743.
[De Piles 1708 available online] (Scholar)
- Diderot, Denis, 1751a, “Beau”, in
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences,
des arts et des métiers, Diderot and d’Alembert
(eds), 1751–1765, Paris: Briasson, vol. 1: 169–181.
[Diderot 1751a available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 1751b, Lettre sur les sourds et muets a
l’usage de ceux qui entendent et qui parlent (Letter on
the Deaf and Dumb, for the use of those who hear and speak),
published anonymously.
[Diderot 1751b available online] (Scholar)
- –––, Diderot on Art I: The Salon of 1765 and
Notes on Painting (“Essais sur la peinture”, 1766),
John Goodman (trans.), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1995. (Scholar)
- –––, Diderot on Art II: The Salon of
1767, John Goodman (trans.), New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1995. (Scholar)
- –––, 1763, Œuvres, Laurent
Versini (ed.), volume 4 of 5, Paris: Laffont, 1996; translation in
[AT] by Kate Tunstall.
- DuBos, Jean-Baptiste, 1719, Réflexions critiques sur la
poésie et sur la peinture, Paris: Mariette, 1733.
Translated as Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and
Music, Thomas Nugent (trans.), London: John Nourse, 1748.
- Félibien, André, 1667, Conferences de
l’Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, pendant
l’année 1667, Paris: Frederic Leonard. Translated as
Seven Conferences Held in the King of France’s Cabinet of
Paintings, Henri Testelin (trans.). London: T. Cooper, 1740. (Scholar)
- –––, 1725, Entretiens sur les vies et les
ouvrages des plus excellents peintres anciens et modernes,
Trévoux: Imprimerie de S. A. S.; translation in [AT] by
Jonathan Murphy. [Félibien died in 1695 and this work was
published posthumously.] (Scholar)
- Hutcheson, Francis, 1725, Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises, London. (Scholar)
- Jaucourt, Louis de, 1765, “Louvre, Le”, in
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences,
des arts et des métiers, Diderot and d’Alembert
(eds), 1751–1765, Paris: Briasson,vol. 9: 706–707. (Scholar)
- La Font de Saint-Yenne, Étienne, 1747,
Réflexions sur quelques causes de l’état
présent de la peinture en France, The Hague: Jean
Neaulme.
- La Motte, Houdar de, 1714, L’Iliade, avec Discours sur
Homère, Paris: Dupuis.
[La Motte 1714 available online]
- Lambert, Anne-Thérèse, Marquise de, 1748,
“Reflexions sur le Goût”, in Œuvres,
Paris: Ganeau, 214–218. Translated as “Some Thoughts on
Taste”, in The Works of the Marchioness de Lambert,
Dublin: J. Potts, 1770, 181–184. (Scholar)
- Le Brun, Charles, 1672, “Sentiments sur le discours du
mérite de la couleur par M. Blanchard”, in André
Fontaine, Conférences inédites de
l’Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture,
Paris: Minerva, 1903, pp. 35–43; translation in AT by Katerina
Deligiorgi. (Scholar)
- Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1851–60, Abecedario de P.J.
Mariette, 6 volumes, Paris. (Scholar)
- Marmontel, Jean François, 1787, Eléments de
littérature, Paris: Desjonquères, 2005. (Scholar)
- Montesquieu, C., Voltaire, and Jean Le Rond d’Alembert,
1757, “Goût”, in Encyclopédie, ou
dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des
métiers, Diderot and d’Alembert (eds),
1751–1765, Paris: Briasson, vol. 7: 758–770. Translated as
an annex to Alexander Gerard, 1759, Essay on Taste, with Three
Dissertations on the Same Subject by Mr de Voltaire, Mr
d’Alembert, Mr de Montesquieu, London: A. Millar.
[Goût 1759 available online] (Scholar)
- Pernéty, Antoine-Joseph, 1757, Dictionnaire portatif de
peinture, sculpture et gravure, Paris: Bauche.
[Pernéty 1757 available online] (Scholar)
- Perrault, Charles, 1688–1697, Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes, Paris: Coignard. (Scholar)
- Poussin, Nicolas, 1647, “Letter to Chantelou”, in
Anthony Blunt, Nicolas Poussin, London: Phaidon, 1967, pp.
367, A. Blunt (trans.). (Scholar)
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1722, Traité de
L’Harmonie: Reduite à ses Principes naturels
(Treatise on Harmony), Paris: Ballard. (Scholar)
- –––, 1750, Démonstration du principe
de l’harmonie, Paris: Durand.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1753, Lettre sur la musique
français, (Letter on French Music).
[Rousseau 1753 available online] (Scholar)
- Voltaire, 1733, Le Temple du goût (The Temple of Taste), Amsterdam: Jaques Desbordes. [Voltaire 1733 available online] (Scholar)
- Watelet, Claude-Henri and Pierre-Charles Lévesque, 1792,
Dictionnaire des arts de peinture, sculpture et gravure, 5
volumes, Paris: Prault. (Scholar)
Secondary Literature
- Barbafieri, Carine, 2021, Anatomie du “mauvais
goût” (1628–1730), Paris: Classiques
Garnier. (Scholar)
- Becq, Annie, 1994, Genèse de l’esthétique
française moderne, 1680–1814, Paris: Albin
Michel. (Scholar)
- Cassirer, Ernst, 1932, Die Philosophie der Aufkärung, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr. Translated as The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Fritz C.A. Koelln and James P. Pettegrove (trans.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. (Scholar)
- Chambers, Frank Pentland, 1932, The History of Taste: An Account of the Revolution of Art Criticism and Theory in Europe, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
- Chantalat, Claude, 1992, A la recherche du goût
classique, Paris: Klincksieck.
- Chouillet, Jacques, 1974, L’esthétique des
Lumières, Paris: PUF.
- Crow, Thomas E., 1985, Painters and Public Life in
Eighteenth-Century Paris, New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press. (Scholar)
- Ehrard, Jean, 1970, L’idée de nature en France
à l’aube des Lumières, Paris:
Flammarion.
- Ferry, Luc, 1990, Homo aestheticus: L’invention du
goût à l’âge classique, Paris:
Grasset. (Scholar)
- Folkierski, Władysław, 1925, Entre le Classicisme et
le romantisme, étude sur l’esthétique et les
esthéticiens du XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Honoré
Champion, 1969. (Scholar)
- Fontaine, André, 1909, Les doctrines d’art en
France: Peintres, amateurs, critiques, de Poussin à
Diderot, Paris: Laurens.
[Fontaine 1909 available online] (Scholar)
- Guichard, Charlotte, 2012, “Taste Communities: The Rise of
the ‘Amateur’ in Eighteenth-Century Paris”,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45(4): 519–547.
doi:10.1353/ecs.2012.0055 (Scholar)
- Harpe, Jacqueline E. de la, 1955, Jean-Pierre de Crousaz et le
conflit des idées au siècle des Lumières,
Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Hobson, Marian, 1982, The Object of Art, The Theory of Illusion in Eighteenth Century France, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Kintzler, Catherine, 1991, Poétique de
l’opéra français de Corneille à
Rousseau, Paris: Minerve. (Scholar)
- Lichtenstein, Jacqueline, 2003, La couleur éloquente: rhétorique et peinture à l’âge classique, Paris: Flammarion. (Scholar)
- Lombart, A., 1913, L’Abbé du Bos, un initiateur
de la pensée moderne, 1670–1742, Paris: Hachette.
[Lombart 1913 available online]
- Masseau, Didier, 2014, Une Histoire du bon goût,
Paris: Perrin éditions. (Scholar)
- Puttfarken, Thomas, 1986, Roger de Piles’ Theory of
Art, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- Saisselin, Rémy Gilbert, 1965, Taste in Eighteenth Century France: Critical reflections of the origins of aesthetics; or, An apology for amateurs, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. (Scholar)
- Scholar, Richard, 2005, The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe, Encounters with a Certain Something, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274406.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Tsien, Jennifer, 2011, The Bad Taste of Others: Judging
Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France, Philadelphia:
University Press. (Scholar)