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Napoleonic Wars, Historical Events in Art, France - Historical Biography, Religion & Mythology in Art, France - Political Biography, Romanticism in Art, French Art, World History - General & Miscellaneous, 1800 - 1815 (Napoleonic Wars) - French History
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Napoleon and History Painting

by Christopher Prendergast
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Overview

This is the first full-length study of Antoine-Jean Gros from an art-historical point of view, but it is more than a monograph. It uses the example of Gros to examine a more general crisis of history painting at a time (the Napoleonic period) of major political and cultural transition.

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Book Details

Published
July 16, 1998
Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; 1997.
Pages
238
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780198174226

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