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In the history of art, Parisian Atticism is a movement in French painting from 1640 to 1660, when painters working in Paris elaborated a rigorous neo-classical style, seeking sobriety, luminosity and harmony, and referring to the Greco-Roman world. [1] [2] Leading exponents of the style were Eustache Le Sueur, Laurent de La Hyre, and Jacques Stella; [3] other practitioners include Sébastien Bourdon. [4]

Notes

  1. ^ Alain Mérot, French Painting in the Seventeenth Century, 1995, ISBN  0300065507, p. 15
  2. ^ Éloge de la clarté : Un courant artistique au temps de Mazarin, 1640-1660 (exhibition catalog), 1998, ISBN  2711837017, introduction by Alain Mérot (not seen)
  3. ^ "Christ at the Column", Harvard Art Museums
  4. ^ Geraldine E. Fowle, "Two Pendants by Sébastien Bourdon: A Study in Iconography and Style", Boston Museum Bulletin 71:364:75-91 (1973), JSTOR  4171584, p. 75