Extremities : painting empire in post-revolutionary France

Extremities : painting empire in post-revolutionary France /

"In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists-- Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix-- painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This ... book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, ero...

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Author / Contributor: Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo (Author)
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Painting, French > 19th century.
France > History > 1789-1900 > Art.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Black revolution. Saint-Domingue. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies, 1797
  • 2. Plague. Egypt-Syria. Gros's Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa, 1804
  • 3. Revolt. Egypt. Girodet's Revolt of Cairo, 1810
  • 4. Cannibalism. Senegal. Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, 1819
  • 5. Blood-mixing. Ottoman Greece. Delacroix's Massacre of Chios, 1814
  • 6. White slavery. Ottoman Africa. Delacroix's Greece on the ruins of Missolonghi, 1826.

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