Published in The rise and fall of Western tradition

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Portuguese, Brazil

Shortly before the French Revolution, a quiet but ambitious artist was climbing his artistic career towards the top of Fine Arts in France, at the time living under the absolutist regime known as the Ancien Régime. Nicolas-Antoine Taunay explored the paths of Baroque and Rococo, arriving at the Italian and Classical ideal. This work presents some of his works, the critics' comments about them, as well as the more common activities of those associated with the Paris Academy of Arts who wished to rise in the academic hierarchy: having good relations with the Parisian elite, studying in Italy, dominate classical drawing and producing canvases according to classicist canons.