Esej o malarstwie

Essay on painting

One of the most well-known texts written about art and also an exceptional phenomenon in 18th-century writing on art. Very soon after publication (1795) it was circulated internationally and by the beginning of Romanticism it had already become a classic of art commentary. It sums up a period of several years of Diderot’s life, in a large part devoted to the arts, preceded by years of deliberations on the physiological determinants of the reception of art and by studies on the psychology of creativity.

Keywords: art history, 18th century, Diderot, art theory, painting, art criticism.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) – to nie tylko jeden z najwybitniejszych pisarzy francuskiego Oświecenia, encyklopedysta, uczony, ale również oryginalny teoretyk i krytyk sztuki.