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Oath of the Horatii

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Description: Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France
~Just ten days after winning the Grand Prix de Rome, Drouais was ready to leave Paris with David and his party. The short delay shows that they had felt little doubt that...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.31-45
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.3
Description: Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris
To judge from David’s planning for the Salon of 1783, the “modesty” discerned by the author of Mémoires secrets seems closer to the mark than does any desire to reach over the heads of his superiors to some radicalized public...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.211-254
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.8
Description: Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror
On 30 Frimaire, Year VIII of the French Republic (21 December 1799), the former premises of the abolished academy of architecture at the Louvre reopened for an unusual public display of a single painting...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.130-235
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00327.4
Description: Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
Offering a critical perspective on Anne Vallayer-Coster poses the opposite problem to that embodied by the case of Jean-Siméon Chardin...
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.39-57
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00325.3
Description: 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...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.50-106
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.2
Description: 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...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.145-185
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.005
Description: Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
In his memoirs recounting the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt and Syria, Jacques-François Miot describes the French army’s bloody massacre of surrendered Arab prisoners after the siege of Jaffa...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.65-103
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.003
Description: Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment
~The common perception of Goya comprises documented fact and myth, inextricably intermeshed. The biography that results is a saga of tribulations leading to ultimate triumph. A summary of the artist’s life might read as follows.
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-27
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00060.003
Description: Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision
When A Sunday on the Grande Jatte—1884 (Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte—1884) was exhibited by Seurat in 1886 and 1887, it was understood by many critics within two seemingly unrelated interpretive frameworks (fig. 42). A number of critics focused on the artist’s pointillist method of paint application, that is, on...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.63-111
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00057.005
Description: The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity
The nineteenth century is characterised in art histories as an era of innovation: in the production of the artist’s materials, in their usage and in the ‘modern’ styles of painting they generated. Science and technology provided painters with a greatly extended range of artists’ materials and pigments, and colour-merchants retailed a burgeoning selection of ready-made...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-14
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00125.004
Description: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
~~John Vanderlyn had the world ahead of him. It was the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the young American who was living in Paris had already won acclaim for two powerful history paintings that had proven him to be not only up-to-date in his pictorial aesthetics but also strikingly political.
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-53
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.004
Description: John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter
It seems deceptively easy to place John Trumbull in the development of American art. When the major artists of the preceding generation, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, remained in England after the War of Independence, Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart carried forward in America the arts of history painting and portraiture, respectively, during the early years of the Republic. Trumbull’s...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
Related print edition pages: pp.22-41
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00071.010

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