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A very sound rendition of a difficult subject. Please view the photographs for a flavour of this excellent book. Bazin overrides ‘nationality’ to investigate the stylistic principle that synthesised European art in the 17th and 18th centuries. He looks at the principles styles (Gothic Mannerism Realism Classicism Baroque Rococo and Neo-classicism); modes (Romanticism Exoticism Art Nouveau Academies & factories Regression & Trompe l’oeil) and themes (The Church The Court The City).

Germain René Michel Bazin (24 September 1901 – 2 May 1990) was a French art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum from 1951 to 1965. Germain Bazin was born in Suresnes on 24 September 1901. He studied art history at the University of Paris. Bazin became an art professor at the University of Brussels in 1934 before returning to Paris to work at the Louvre in 1936. From 1951 to 1965 he was chief curator of paintings at the Louvre. From 1965 to 1970 he was in charge of painting restoration for France’s national museum system. In 1981 he became a member of the Royal Academie. He died 2 May 1990.