The Expression of the Passions: The Origin and Influence of Charles Le Bruns "Conference sur lexpression generale et particuliere"

About this book

In 1688 Charles Le Brun a French academician delivered a lecture on expression that was so popular it was published in sixty-three separate editions and influenced all discussion of the subject throughout Europe for over a century. This book reconstructs and translates the text of the lecture explores the context in which it was conceived delivered received and finally rejected and reproduces the images that accompanied the lecture.