Anne-Claude-Philippe de Caylus

Biography

He is the oldest son of the lieutenant-general count de Caylus and Marthe de Caylus, a niece of Madam de Maintenon.

Still young person, Caylus is used in the army during the end of the War of succession as Spain. Signed peace, it gives up a promising military career to be devoted to the study of arts. He travels in England, in Germany, Italy, accompanies the ambassador by France to Constantinople and in Greece, where he studies and collects antiquities. He visited the Turkey, the Asia Mineure, and returned in 1717 with rich person materials, whom he bequeathed while dying to the cabinet of the king. He was one of the first has to regard the Archéologie as a science and a considerable influence on Winckelmann, the theorist of the Néoclassicisme, which recognized its debt towards him.

He published since this time of important works on arts and antiquities, which made it receive with the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1742. Caylus meets Antoine Watteau with which it becomes friendly and which gives him courses of drawing. Besides it will write a biography of this one after its death, which remains one of the primary sources of information on its life. It helped the artists of its councils and his fortune, and did itself of research on the average employees by the old ones to paint with the Encaustique and on the manner of incorporating painting in the marble.

It was also occupied, either like amateur, or as artist, of painting and engraving. It becomes itself engraver of talent, copying many fabrics of the large Masters. He became honorary member of the royal Académie of painting and sculpture in 1731 and follows with assiduity the weekly conferences. He was one supports important for many young people artists of which Edmé Bouchardon, preferring the neoclassicism incipient with the Rococo still from mode.

He is the author of many erotic tales, whose inspiration came certainly to him from the frequentation of the equivocal mediums of Paris of the time. These tales, among which History of Mr. Guillaume, coachman gone back to 1730, were gathered in several editions, of which complete Œuvres badines in 1757.

Caylus had as a friend the abbot Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, who helped it in several of his work. Diderot, which never hid its animosity for Caylus of alive sound, describing it like “an antique dealer acariâtre and abrupt”, wrote with its death the epigram: “Death delivered us crueler amateurs”.

Its Cénotaphe in Porphyre inspired in Diderot the Distique according to: “Ci-to lie an abrupt antique dealer acariâtre and/Oh, which it is well placed in this Etruscan jug ”.

The Tiran the White allotted to the count de Caylus

This first translation of the novel of Joanot Martorell is actually only one adaptation, so much work was altered and cut down. In addition, any watch which the adapter was unaware of that the novel was Catalan, and that it translated out of the Italian translation of Lelio Manfredi, going back to 1538. It does not remain about it less than this adaptation is beautiful an infidel, with the extremely pleasant style. The success of the novel is attested by the number of its editions - five were listed, which spread out C. 1737 to 1786, including in the first two volumes of the Œuvres badines complettes . French was at the time the language of culture par excellence of the Europe of the Lights, and many large of this world read Tirant in French, like Catherine of Russia, which had a specimen of it. The beautiful spirits were not unaware of it. The quotation that makes of it Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Confessions watch obviously that allusion was included/understood society peoples: “I judged that a man who spends two hours every morning to brush his nails can spend a few moments well to fill with white the hollows of his skin. The Gauffecourt catch, which was not bag-with-devil, had rather pleasantly called it Tyrant-the-White. ”

Works

History of Guillaume, coachman , ED. Zulma, Paris, 1993 (1730)
Collection of antiquities Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Gallic (7 volumes, 1752-1767)
New subjects of painting and sculpture (1755)
New subjects of painting and sculpture (1755)
Tables drawn from Iliade, the Odyssey, and Enéide (1757)
Works badines (12 volumes, 1787)
Lives of Mignard, Lemoine, Bouchardon, Watteau

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