L’art de la miniature dans Eugénie Grandet
If critical tradition favours comparing Eugénie Grandet to Dutch painting, the text and paratext indicate a completely different pictorial reference: the art of the miniature. Balzac is thinking here not only of the finesse of miniature portraits exchanged in a context of love or matrimony, but also...
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2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | If critical tradition favours comparing Eugénie Grandet to Dutch painting, the text and paratext indicate a completely different pictorial reference: the art of the miniature. Balzac is thinking here not only of the finesse of miniature portraits exchanged in a context of love or matrimony, but also of the illuminations of sacred texts imbued with violence and the sublime. On Balzac’s own admission, these two aesthetic directions are harnessed in order to break the “impotence” linked to the representation of “scenes of provincial life”. |
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