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Portrait of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, led to execution

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Description: The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s
~In 1796, Jean-Louis Laneuville exhibited a prison portrait of Thérésa Tallien (fig. 145). It appeared in the second post-Thermidor Salon, reminding viewers of the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.165-185
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00338.11
Description: Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror
In the context of the crisis in the republican imaginary that I described in the previous chapter, how could history painting speak of the Revolution as a collective historical experience after Thermidor...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.71-129
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00327.3
Description: Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
Books about modernism tend to go in for inaugural dates. It all began in the 1820s, they say, or with Courbet setting up his booth outside the Exposition Universelle in 1855, or the year Madame Bovary and Les Fleurs du Mal were put on trial, or in room M of the Salon des Refusés. “An important component in historical sequences of artistic events,” writes George Kubler, “is an abrupt change of content and expression at intervals when an entire language of form suddenly falls into …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.15-53
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.004

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