Keywords
Boucher
Veronese
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Abstract
In this article, we intend to contribute to the understanding of the iconography, the artistic and the historical context behind the creation of two paintings, nowadays in the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), both painted by François Boucher (1703-1770), around 1752, which are copies of Paolo Veronese’s (1528-1588) Hercules between Vice and Virtue, and Allegory of Strenght and Wisdom. Those copies of Veronese’s paintings, from the XVIIIth century, can be set in an European context of revaluation of XVIth century Venetian painting. In this article we show that Boucher’s paintings can be considered paradigmal.
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