Though he was prodigiously gifted and hugely admired in his day, only a handful of Bouguereau’s paintings hold up beside the works his revolutionary peers produced in the last decades of the 19th century. The authors hope to make the case that Bouguereau should be as highly regarded as Charles Dickens or Victor Hugo, but that defense is undercut by the realities of the painter’s output. Unger is an astute critic and an able storyteller his remapping of familiar territory should please both readers new to Michelangelo and those who think they know him inside out.Įjected from the canon of Modernism and reviled for his slick pictures of peasant girls and saccharine nudes, William Bouguereau receives a full-dress effort at rehabilitation in this handsomely illustrated overview of his life and art.
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