Sentences with phrase «then led the art critic»

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The first writers to acquire an individual reputation as art critics in 18th - century France were Jean - Baptiste Dubos with his Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1718)[17] which garnered the acclaim of Voltaire for the sagacity of his approach to aesthetic theory; [18] and Étienne La Font de Saint - Yenne with Reflexions sur quelques causes de l'état présent de la peinture en France who wrote about the Salon of 1746, [19] commenting on the socioeconomic framework of the production of the then popular Baroque art style, [20] which led to a perception of anti-monarchist sentiments in the text.