The sky over the Louvre / Bernar Yslaire, Jean-Claude Carriere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yslaire, 1957-

Contributor:

David Toccafondi, Dan Sung and Joshua O'Neill Collection of Comics and Graphic Novels (University of Pennsylvania)

Comics Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Musée du Louvre--Comic books, strips, etc.

Musée du Louvre.

France--History--1789-1793--Comic books, strips, etc.

France.

Penn Provenance:

Toccafondi, David, C'95 (donor)

Physical Description:

72 unnumbered pages : illustrations, some color ; 29 cm

Edition:

1st U.S. edition

Place of Publication:

New York : NBM Pub., 2011.

Summary:

"Yslaire and Carrière conjure up a part-real, part-fanciful origin of a real painting: Death of Joseph Bara (1794). With France's Reign of Terror in full sway, revolutionary leader Robespierre charges the great painter Jacques-Louis David with depicting a pure Supreme Being to replace the Catholic Church's pantheon of the Trinity and its saints. But then young revolutionary Joseph Bara dies in the streets, and Robespierre charges David also with painting the lad as a people's hero. David has been approached by Jules, a mysterious androgyne, and he has been trying to paint him as the god-figure. Then Robespierre is beheaded, and Jules as well. The distraught David, by then obsessed with the youth, exhumes his corpse and recognizes a perfect model for Bara."--Lib. Journal.

ISBN:

9781561636020

1561636029

OCLC:

751107671