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L'esprit des beaux arts

Estève, Pierre, approximately 1720- · 1753 · Paris : Chez C.J. Baptiste Bauche fils, libraire, à l'Image Ste Genevieve, Quay des Augstins · 10 pictures

L'esprit des beaux arts is an 1753 Paris treatise on aesthetics by Pierre Estève, printed for the bookseller C.J. Baptiste Bauche fils for readers of French art theory. Its small ornamental woodcut vignettes show oval and rectangular frames of scrolling acanthus-like foliage enclosing grids and clusters of stylised rosettes and dotted lattice patterns, a restrained rococo-era decorative vocabulary a designer could adapt for borders and frames.

Aesthetics · Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 · Art -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800 · Art -- Philosophy

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