FRENCH ORGY ALERT ON #RGIP! @BRAVOTV is saying OUI to art history! 🎉🇫🇷🎨🖌📺👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏻✨ I’ve spent a decade writing about the aesthetic philosophy found within 19th century French Decadent literature, and hosting private art lectures & tours on paintings such as this, « Romans de la Décadence » by Thomas Couture at @museeorsay. Join the orgy every Monday at 9PM est ! 🇫🇷✨🎨 PS: While this painting by Thomas Couture is a history painting of the Romans in an opulent orgy and banquet, the painting is actually a « realist allegory”, alluding to French society of his time. Couture criticized the moral decadence of France under the July monarchy, the ruling class of which had been discredited by a series of scandals. Art critics of 1847 were quick to see in these Romans "The French of the Decadence ». #RGIP #paris #arthistory #arthistorian #bravo #bravotv #museedorsay #couture