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Emulation : making artists for revolutionary France / Thomas Crow.
Fine Arts Library N6846.5.N4 C76 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825.
- Neoclassicism (Art)--France.
- Neoclassicism (Art).
- Artists.
- Psychology.
- France.
- Art, French.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Art and the revolution.
- History.
- David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825--Influence.
- David, Jacques Louis.
- Allegories.
- Men in art.
- Artists--France--Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- This fascinating and important book puts the life of the artist at the centre of innovative art history, narrating a biography of five painters at the heart of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques-Louis David and his extraordinarily precocious pupils Drouais, Girodet, Gerard, and Gros.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300060939 :
- OCLC:
- 30782730
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