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From Homer to the Harem: The Art of Jean Lecomte du Nou˙
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Roger Diederen. From Homer to the Harem: The Art of Jean Lecomte du Nou˙. New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, 2004, 232pp.
This is the first modern publication about the great French Classical and Orientalist painter, Jean Lecomte du Nou˙ (1842-1923). Written by Dahesh Museum of Art curator Roger Diederen, this book provides an in-depth discussion of Lecomte du Nou˙'s art and career, as well as a catalogue raisonné of all his known works.
A favorite student of the renowned academician Jean-Leon Gérôme and a successful exhibitor at the Paris Salon, Lecomte du Nou˙ derived his subjects from classical history, the Bible, and his voyages to the Middle East-themes through which he visualized a chronologically distant past and a geographically distant present. Eschewing modernism for the traditional ideal of beauty, his finest works convey a highly charged frisson of transgression that speaks directly to audiences today.
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