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Description: Fabricius Refuses the Presents the Ambassadors from Pyrrhus Had Been Ordered to...

TitleFabricius Refuses the Presents the Ambassadors from Pyrrhus Had Been Ordered to Offer Him

Creator nameLagrenée, Louis Jean François

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1777

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

DimensionsUnknown

LocationMusée René Princeteau, Libourne, France

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPainting, French--18th centuryHistory painting, FrenchPainting, Rococo

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II. The Exemplum Virtutis

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~THE UNCOMMON heroism of a Hector or a Germanicus, the noble tears of an Andromache or an Agrippina—such high moments from...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.50-106

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.2

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryGreuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825

4. The Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Art

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~The eighteenth century sees the definitive politicization of art, which would ultimately come to play a role in the wrenching events of the French Revolution. Louis XIV’s takeover of the art establishment in the service of the state, beginning around 1660, laid the foundation for what followed. Crucial to Louis’s...

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Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.145-185

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.005

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Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniqueArt--Political aspectsNeoclassicism (Art)--FrancePainting, French--18th centuryPainting, Rococo

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