Introduction: the painter's dream of light -- The painter as puzzle -- The painter's apprentice -- RIgors of the academy in Paris -- Life at the academy in Rome -- Nature as art, art as artifice -- Exhilaration at Tivoli -- Colorplates -- completing the Grand Aesthetic Tour -- Home to Paris -- Portraits of fantasy -- Tangling with Terpsichore -- THe progresso f love -- Italy revisited -- The fete at Saint-Cloud -- En famille -- Orlando and Quixote -- Before the deluge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.
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