Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille D'Eylau

By Christopher Prendergast
244 pages

Contributors:: Christopher Prendergast
Publisher:: Clarendon Press
Place of publication:: Oxford
Publication year:: 1997
Subjects:: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Portraits
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835. Battle of Eylau
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835--Criticism and Interpretation
History in Art
Battles in Art
Apotheosis in Art

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This is the first full-length study of Antoine-Jean Gros from an art-historical point of view, but it is more than a monograph. It uses the example of Gros to examine a more general crisis of history painting at a time (the Napoleonic period) of major political and cultural transition.

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