Souvenirs - Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (ekphrasis series) drawing Nifemi Marcus-Bello

Nifemi Marcus-Bello

with accompanying scholarly essays offering historical and theoretical background

I can say with confidence that I have never been here before

all the while observing and investigating the creative possibilities and ambitions of the humblest of materials: clay

though state bodies seem unwilling to unpick the tangle of an often-shameful history and mythology

Souvenirs - Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (ekphrasis series) drawing Nifemi Marcus-BelloA selection from the memoir of lisabeth Louise Vige Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir, Vige Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly enjoyable account of her life and art. She relates her encounters among the royalty and aristocracy she paintedincluding, most famously, her patron Marie Antoinetteand the effusive reception they extended to her across