The afterlife of François Le Moyne’s Annunciation on eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejos
Considered lost until a few years ago, the Annunciation painted by François Le Moyne in 1727 (and turned into a print, in the following year, by Laurent Cars) was widely copied, both in paintings and prints. But while the paintings – some of them thought to have originated in Le Moyne’s own worksho...
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Considered lost until a few years ago, the Annunciation painted by François Le Moyne in 1727 (and turned into a print, in the following year, by Laurent Cars) was widely copied, both in paintings and prints. But while the paintings – some of them thought to have originated in Le Moyne’s own workshop – are well documented, the same cannot be said of the prints. Nonetheless, these works remain highly significant, as they were the main vehicles for the dissemination of images in the 18th century. In Portugal (and Brazil), researchers have found 34 eighteenth-century azulejo panels inspired by this composition. Based on these findings, they concluded that the model launched by Le Moyne’s painting and promoted by Cars’ print became highly popular from the 1740s on, and even more so with the rise of the Rococo style. In fact, it ended up replacing the previous models, thereby putting an end to the pictorial diversity that had characterized former depictions of the Annunciation in azulejo.
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| spelling | doaj-art-2bb7d68941634012a13ff809c3b07d812025-02-07T22:23:30ZengUniversidad Complutense de MadridEikón Imago2254-87182025-02-011410.5209/eiko.92881The afterlife of François Le Moyne’s Annunciation on eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejosRosário Salema de Carvalho0a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:120:"Az – Azulejo Research Network, ARTIS – Institute of Art History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon";} Considered lost until a few years ago, the Annunciation painted by François Le Moyne in 1727 (and turned into a print, in the following year, by Laurent Cars) was widely copied, both in paintings and prints. But while the paintings – some of them thought to have originated in Le Moyne’s own workshop – are well documented, the same cannot be said of the prints. Nonetheless, these works remain highly significant, as they were the main vehicles for the dissemination of images in the 18th century. In Portugal (and Brazil), researchers have found 34 eighteenth-century azulejo panels inspired by this composition. Based on these findings, they concluded that the model launched by Le Moyne’s painting and promoted by Cars’ print became highly popular from the 1740s on, and even more so with the rise of the Rococo style. In fact, it ended up replacing the previous models, thereby putting an end to the pictorial diversity that had characterized former depictions of the Annunciation in azulejo. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/92881IconographyAnnunciationAzulejoPrintCopy |
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| title | The afterlife of François Le Moyne’s Annunciation on eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejos |
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