INTEGRATION OR INTERROGATION? FRANCO-MAGHREBI RAP AND HIP-HOP CULTURE IN MARSEILLE

Use the syllabus first paper outline also.

Place at the opening of your essay an image of the painting with:

Name of artist

Full title

Date

Technique and support (ex. Oil on canvas)

Dimensions

Museum collection

This information should be on label and/or Louvre website

Look up briefly the figure of Cupid and his story and possibly the literary source for the scene of his funeral. No more research is necessary.

Beech, Beatrice H., and George T. Beech. “A Painting, a Poem, and a Controversy about Women and Love in Paris in the 1530s.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, 2003, pp. 635–652. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20061527.

Two anonymous and little known works of art from sixteenth-century France, a poem of 1545, "Les Obsèques d'Amour," and a somewhat later painting now in the Louvre, Les Funérailles de l'amour, have in common their portrayal of the funeral of Cupid, the god of love, a theme otherwise unknown at the time and one which has resisted modern attempts to explain its meaning. This article proposes that in both cases Cupid's burial is a metaphor for the rejection of carnal love by a group of Parisian women then charged with sexual immorality and that the painting is derived from the poem. The accusation and the assertion of innocence formed part of a controversy that extended back to 1529 and involved both prominent Parisian poets and wives of officials at the court of François I. Thus, far from being exercises in mythological fantasy, the poem and the painting reflect mundane conflict in contemporary Parisian society and are potentially important sources for the literary world and feminist debate

panegyric des damoyselles de Paris sur les neuf mus.

Acquired by Louvre on 1954

Identify main figures and groups in the painting and describe their placement in the landscape, buildings and sky.

Describe actions, costume, gestures of key figures. How do they interrelate?

Describe their environment: buildings and nature, how do they contrast or complement each other?

Describe use of color and various parts of the painted surface: notably figures, architecture, landscape, sky.

What vision of the ancient world does the painter give us?

What seems real, what is artificial in the painting?

How does the painting appeal to our senses or emotions?

What is pleasurable about it? Anything you find negative or unconvincing and why?

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