Quatremère de Quincy : art and politics during the French Revolution / David Gilks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilks, David, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quatremère de Quincy, M. (Antoine-Chrysostome), 1755-1849.

Quatremère de Quincy.

Quatremère de Quincy, M. (Antoine-Chrysostome), 1755-1849--Political and social views.

Art and society--France--History--18th century.

Art and society.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Art and the revolution.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 253 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, portrait

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

A thoroughly researched and richly detailed contextual study of the most eventful period in Quatremère's life, but it also offers an original and unfamiliar history of the French Revolution.

Contents:

Introduction: an unconventional history of the French Revolution

The making of a missionary of the Antiquity, 1755-85

The friend of the arts, 1785-9

Art in a regenerated nation, 1789-91

The nation's temple, 1791

Devoted to the king, 1791-2

Republicanizing the Panthéon, 1792-4

Standing for the Counter-Revolution, 1794-6

Justice to the papacy, 1796

The mask of constitutionalism, 1796-9

Conclusion: art, crown and altar

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 23, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-180762-1

OCLC:

1463407720