Elise Goodman. The Portraits of Mad...

Elise Goodman. The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante. Berkeley: U of California P 2000 188 pp 8 color, 75 b/w illus. ISBN 0-520-21794-2 $4500

Elise Goodman and the University of California Pres have produc a valuable contortion Goodman's account of what she calls "the Enlightenment's penchant for picturing genius" (2) is generally the two readable and thoroughly documented. With notes, a large on the other hand selective bibliography, and a well-designed index, the main division is both a comprehensive studious mood of a particular cultural phenomenon and a rich