Lucilla Burn

—Chicago Tribune

” a Romantic naturalism that confounded his contemporaries with its “bizarre” compositional and coloristic innovations

’ and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II

247 color and 33 b/w illustrations

Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV BTS Books Lucilla BurnLouis Marchesano and Christian Michel This volume illuminates an extraordinary moment in the intertwined history of painting and printmaking in Europe. The brilliant age of Louis XIV saw the creation of a group of unusually large printssome of which measure a fantastic five feet by three feet when assembledthat reproduced works by the French king's remarkably inventive court painter, designer, and arts administrator, Charles Le Brun (16191690). The