Napoleon and History Painting Antoine-Jean Gros's la Bataille D'Eylau |
|
| Author:
| Prendergast, Christopher |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-817422-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1998 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
|
| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $210.00 |
Book Description:
|
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. Christopher Prendergast is a distinguished scholar of international standing. `Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early...
More DescriptionThis 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. Christopher Prendergast is a distinguished scholar of international standing. `Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement