The French Revolution as blasphemy : Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 /

William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792, and Celebrating over...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Pressly, William L., 1944-
مؤلفون آخرون: Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
سلاسل:California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 6.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21316
جدول المحتويات:
  • A checkered career
  • The Journée of August 10, 1792
  • A modern Bacchanal: Plundering the King's cellar at Paris
  • The furies of Hell: Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers
  • Thesis and antithesis: an antiheroic art
  • Counterrevolutionary propaganda
  • Religious transcendence.