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...André Bauchant, for many years a gardener, whose paintings in the primitive tradition of Henri Rousseau show his love of trees and flowers...
Painting of Mystery. The Merode triptych is one of the great mystery paintings. The painter, date and donor are all matters of conjecture, though the Met's Curator Theodore Rousseau Jr. makes a good case for attributing it to Robert Campin and dating it about 1420. In this century it has been exhibited only twice-in Bruges in 1912 and in Paris in 1923. Since then it has been kept out of sight...
...bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...
...confused with the "natural law" of Rousseau and others, which holds roughly that natural law is to be found closest to the "state of nature," i.e., in primitive societies, leading to the belief that civilized institutions have corrupted the natural goodness of man and that virtue can best be restored by "artificial or arbitrary" systems derived from man's primitive appetites. Communism and socialism are among the descendants of Rousseau...
...local production of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" was not suitable for presentation. Censorship further plagued the University when several orders of books for French and other foreign literature courses were forbidden to be shipped to the Phillips Book Store because they were "obscene." Among the restricted works: Rousseau's Confessions, Rabelais's Oeuvres, and Boccaccio's Decameron...