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What are some love stories told in art?

The Swing is one of the better ones. The painting "The Swing" depicts a scene in which a young man of the flamboyant aristocracy hides in the bushes and spies on a young lady on a swing. At this time on the swing lady a high-heeled shoes accidentally fall off and thrown out, the prodigal son is ready to reach out to pick up. Although painted in great detail, this painting represents the artistic interests of the aristocracy at the time. Flirtation is the dominant theme in all of Fragonard's works, and in terms of both content and form, it is far superior to that of his teacher, Boucher. It is true that Fragonard's progressive artistic ideas coexisted with a decadent aristocratic taste. The latter in those paintings made for the order of the nobility, the performance is very revealing, frivolous content and color skills, is Fragonard inherited Boucher "to the women of the courtesy" of a painting "tradition".