Salon (gathering)
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A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate". Salons in the tradition of the
Réunion de dames, Abraham Bosse, 17th century
Fészek salon in the 1930'
"Abbé Delille reciting his poem, La Conversation in the salon of Madame Geoffrin" from Jacques Delille, "La Conversation" (Paris, 1812)
Portrait of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, by Marianne Loir (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC)
Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only
Salon (gathering)
…A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" (Latin: aut delectare aut prodesse). Salons in the tradition of the French literary…
Bronze medallion depicting Horace, 4th–5th century
Horace reads his poems in front of Maecenas, by Fyodor Bronnikov
Horace reciting his verses, by Adalbert von Rössler.
Horace, portrayed by Giacomo Di Chirico