num_pages: 248
description: In 1688, Charles Le Brun, a French academician, delivered a lecture on expression that was so popular it was published in sixty-three separate editions and influenced all on of the subject throughout Europe for over a century. This book reconstructs and translates the text of the lecture, explores the context in which it was conceived, delivered, received, and finally rejected, and reproduces the images that accompanied the lecture.
language: English
title: The Expression of the Passions: The Origin and Influence of Charles Le Brun`s "Conference sur l`expression generale et particuliere"
publisher: Yale University Press