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The French Revolution as blasphemy : Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 /

William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792, and Celebrating over...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pressly, William L., 1944-
Otros Autores: Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
Colección:California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A checkered career
  • The Journée of August 10, 1792
  • A modern Bacchanal: Plundering the King's cellar at Paris
  • The furies of Hell: Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers
  • Thesis and antithesis: an antiheroic art
  • Counterrevolutionary propaganda
  • Religious transcendence.