Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile
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Now available in paperback. This beautifully illustrated book, originally published in 2005 in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, is the first to examine the transformation of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300104472
ISBN13:9780300104479
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:5.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 9.5" x 12.3"
Customer Reviews
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Jacques-Louis Eavid: Empire to Exile
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
What a great book, and what a man, survived three dinastes, painted like no other and inspired a nation to glory. Buy it and enjoy a wonderful story.
Book well documented and well illustrated
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
It is the catalog of a recent exhibition of works of Jacques-Louis David, mostly portraits and drawings, the text presents many details, and illustrations of the portraits are superb.
A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC MASTER
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This excellent book published on the occasion of an exhibition presents two remarkable personalities of this painter - a celebrated and controversial painter of his time and his connection with Napoleon Buonaparte.The second helped him in the way to the admiration , after a revolutionary republican beginning.The first cannot forget a notable draftman and painter,with followers such as Gros , Ingres,Thévenin,... Even in the exile,his portraits are precious.Connecting or not one part of his life as official painter of Napoleon, forgetting or not his revolutionary starting , David remains ,as Stendhal defended , the greatest painter of 18th century.
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