Partly thanks to Carriera’s skill and clever marketing, pastel portraits became one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo era.
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Pastel Then, Pastel Now
The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history.
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How 18th-Century Artists Pieced Together Pastel Portraits
In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium.