La Dormeuse (1765) by Pierre Antoine Baudouin
Recent scholarship by Sholem Stein has revealed that the protagonist reader in this painting by French artist Pierre Antoine Baudouin had been reading either Sinistrari d’Ameno‘s Demoniality Or Incubi and Succubi or Claude Le Petit‘s “Apologie de Chausson.”
The woman reader was previously believed to have fallen asleep of boredom by reading Kant’s Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, professor Stein now confirms that she probably died of excessive lasciviousness.
Reading about the scholarship of Sholem Stein reminded me of the work of Coyle and Sharpe. I think you might find them interesting.
Hi Paul, thanks so much, the work of Coyle and Sharp sure is a relation to Sholem’s work, thanks for the tip, they are extremely funny and one would not connect them to the American spirit.
See http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/introducing-coyle-and-sharpe/
“died of extreme lasciviousness”…… wonder what that would feel like?
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