The Heroic Nostalgia of Joseph Parrocel

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DELAPLANCHE (Jérôme) [Preface by Joël Cornette]. Joseph Parrocel, 1646-1704: The Heroic Nostalgia, Arthena, Deauville, 2006, publisher's hardcover with illustrated jacket, 4to (32 x 24 cm), 376 pp. with 537 illustrations including 309 in color. Joseph Parrocel is the emblematic painter of battle, embodying heroism and bravery. He was also one of the inventors of modern genre scenes with hunts or gallant scenes often transposed to the East. He excelled in expressive religious compositions, both drawn and engraved, and favored effects and dynamic movements through color and impasto.