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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jacques-Louis David Portraits, the Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Portrait of Pope Pius Vii, Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki, Portrait of Madame Récamier, Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine, Unfinished Portrait of General Bonaparte. Excerpt: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries is an 1812 painting by Jacques Louis David. It shows Napoleon I of France in uniform in his study at the Tuileries. It was a private commission from the Scottish nobleman and fan of Napoleon Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton in 1811 and completed in 1812. Originally shown at Hamilton Palace, it was sold to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1882, from whom it was bought by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1954, which deposited it in Washington DC's National Gallery of Art, where it now hangs. Vertical in format, it shows Napoleon standing, three-quarters, life size, wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Imperial Guard Foot Grenadiers (blue with white facings and red cuffs). He also wears his Légion d'honneur and Order of the Iron Crown decorations, along with gold epaulettes, white French-style culottes and white stockings. His face is turned towards the viewer and his right hand is in his jacket. The second versionThe office is on the right-hand first-floor of the Tuileries, with a wooden chair decorated in red velvet and gold embroidery and an Empire style desk on a sculpted stone base decorated with a lion's head. Piled on the desk are a pen, several books, dossiers and rolled papers. More rolled papers and a map are on the green carpet to the desk's left - on these papers is the painter's signature LVD DAVID OPVS 1812. All this, along with Napoleons' ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21394506 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Liste Des Élèves de Jacques-Louis David, Andrea Appiani, Washington Allston, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, François Marius Granet, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Pompeo Batoni, Raphaël Mengs, Léon Cogniet, Antonio Cavallucci, Jean-Pierre Granger, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, T. B.bitter, Marco Benefial, Charles Gleyre, François-Joseph Navez, Domenico Corvi, Jérôme-Martin Langlois, Giambettino Cignaroli, Giuseppe Rapisardi, Michel Ghislain Stapleaux, Les Barbus, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Bernardino Nocchi, Antonio Donghi, Vincenzo Meucci, Ignazio Hugford, Gaspare Landi, Pietro Nocchi, Giuseppe Sciuti, Giovanni Marghinotti, Stefano Tofanelli, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Charles Crauk, Giuseppe Bossi, Pietro Benvenuti, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Michel Martin Drolling, Gheorghe Tattarescu, Giuseppe Antonio Luchi, Georges Rouget, Achille Pinelli, Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Santo Cattaneo, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Domenico Pellegrini, John Vanderlyn, Francesco Nenci, José Aparicio, Domenico Vantini, Antoine-Hilaire-Henri Périé, Giuseppe Duprà, Carlo Frigerio, Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, Luigi Sabatelli, Adolphe Lullin, Niccolò Lapiccola, José de Madrazo Y Agudo, George Dance le Jeune, Francesco Gonin, Christian Gotlieb Kratzenstein-Stub. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Entre la fin du siècle et le début du siècle, l'école de David fut une des plus influentes ; entre 1781 et 1821, de ses ateliers, sont sortis environ 400 élèves, peintres, sculpteurs, ou graveurs, représentant en majorité le néoclassicisme, mais aussi le style empire et le style troubadour. Après le retentissement de l'exposition de son tableau Bélisaire demandant l'aumône en 1781 et sa réception à l'Académie de peinture, David reçut nombre de demandes de jeunes a...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Adam Weishaupt, Jeremy Bentham, Claude Louis Berthollet, Jacques-Louis David, William V, Prince of Orange, Charles Xiii of Sweden, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Charles Iv of Spain, William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, Michelle de Bonneuil, John Thomas Duckworth, Thomas Johnes, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Mary Campbell, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Olympe de Gouges, Johann Heinrich Von Schmitt, Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, Nathaniel Dance, John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare, William Few, Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, Paul Mérault Monneron, John Prinsep, François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros, George Dixon, Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois, William White, David Cobb, John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, Lord Robert Seymour, William Shield, Luther Martin, Elias Hicks, James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, Anne Seymour Damer, John Playfair, Ching-Thang Khomba, Charles Blagden, David Ziegler, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, James Henry Craig, Peleg Wadsworth, Richard Fitzpatrick, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, John Johns Trigg, Martha Jefferson, Joseph Bramah, Thomas Day, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Lorenz Von Westenrieder, William Lemon, Dudley Long North, Adair Crawford, Adamantios Korais, Gottfried August Bürger, Rhoda Boyd, Johann Kollowrat, Gustavus Richard Brown, Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, John Nicholson Inglefield, Duke George Augustus of Mecklenburg, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham, David Gilly, Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, Henry Beekman Livingston, Timothy Dexter, Benedict Joseph Labre, John Fisher, Robert Coleman, George Cornewall, Avraham Danzig, Christian Ditlev Frederik, Count Reventlow, Henry Tufts, Avraham Yehoshua Heshel, Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Mur... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Jacques-Louis David, Chute de Robespierre, Georges Couthon, Antoine-François Ève, Exécution de Maximilien de Robespierre, Albert Laponneraye, Ernest Hamel, Augustin Robespierre, Marc Antoine Jullien, Robespierrisme, René-François Dumas, Albert Mathiez, Pierre Villiers, Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, François Hanriot, Jean-Baptiste Coffinhal, Philippe Buonarroti, Catherine Théot, Claude-François de Payan, Jean-Antoine Courbis, Éléonore Duplay, Charlotte Robespierre, Antoine Simon, Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot, Jean-Baptiste Cloots, Élisabeth le Bas, Maurice Duplay, Philippe-François-Joseph le Bas, Cimetière Des Errancis, Jean Massin, Simon Duplay, La Queue de Robespierre. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, ou Maximilien Robespierre, né le 6 mai 1758 à Arras (Artois) et mort guillotiné le 28 juillet 1794 à Paris, place de la Révolution, était un avocat et un homme politique français. Principale figure des Montagnards sous la Convention, il incarna la « tendance démocratique » de la Révolution française. Il demeure l'un des personnages les plus controversés de cette période, surnommé « l'Incorruptible » par ses partisans, et qualifié de « tyran » ou de « dictateur sanguinaire » par ses ennemis pendant la Terreur et après Thermidor. Portrait de Maximilien de Robespierre, par Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, peint en 1791Maximilien de Robespierre était le fils ainé de Maximilien-Barthélémy-François de Robespierre (né en 1732), avocat au Conseil supérieur d'Artois, et de Jacqueline-Marguerite Carraut (née en 1735), fille d'un brasseur d'Arras. Après leur rencontre en 1757, les deux jeunes gens s'étaient mariés le 2 janvier 1758. Né à Arras le 6 ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Jean-Paul Marat, Jacques-Louis David, Georges Danton, Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras, Bertrand Barère, Lazare Carnot, Maximilien Robespierre, Joseph Fouché, Louis Philippe Ii, Duke of Orléans, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Trial of Louis Xvi, Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Louis-Michel le Peletier, Marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Georges Couthon, Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Jean-Marie Collot D'herbois, Fabre D'églantine, Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, Charles Henri Sanson, Joseph Lakanal, Pierre-Joseph Cambon, Philippe-François-Joseph le Bas, Maximin Isnard, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Jean Bon Saint-André, Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac, Roger Ducos, Pierre Louis Prieur, Julien of Toulouse, Pierre-François-Joseph Robert, Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède, Armand-Joseph Guffroy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 234. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (IPA: ) (6 May 1758 28 July 1794) is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. Robespierre was influenced by 18th century Enlightenment philosophes such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu, and he was a capable articulator of the beliefs of the left-wing bourgeoisie. He was described as being physically unimposing and immaculate in attire and personal manners. His supporters called him "The Incorruptible", while his adversaries called him the "Tyrant" and dictateur sanguinaire (bloodthirsty dictator). Maximilien de Robespierre was born in Arras, France. His family has...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23860776 ... Read more

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Chapters: Napoleon I, Napoleon Ii of France, Jacques-Louis David, Concordat of 1801, France in the Nineteenth Century, Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, French Consulate, Bourla-Papey, Switzerland in the Napoleonic Era, Henri Grégoire, Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Napoleon and the Jews, Napoleon and the Catholic Church, Charles-Frédéric Reinhard, Joseph Fesch, Sénat Conservateur, French Imperial Eagle, Illyrian Provinces, Charles Leclerc, Coronation of Napoleon I, Charles Pichegru, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Afrancesado, Tribunat, Pierre Claude François Daunou, Pierre François Tissot, List of Napoleonic Battles, Jacques-Charles Dupont de L'eure, Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, Roustam Raza, Milan Decree, Denis Decrès, Constitutional Bishop, Place de Clichy, Victor Hugues, Jean Bon Saint-André, Antoine Christophe Saliceti, Corps Législatif, Law of 20 May 1802, Jean Baptiste Treilhard, Roger Ducos, Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon, Étienne-François Letourneur, Erik Magnus Staël Von Holstein, Military Household of the Emperor, Charles Malo François Lameth, Napoleonic Medal, Decree on the Theatres, Second White Terror, Georges Antoine Chabot, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Louis Joseph Marchand, Berlin Decree, Louis-Joseph Faure, Jean Tulard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 311. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Previous ruling monarch was Louis XVI as King of the French (17911792) Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: , Italian: Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Napoleon was born in Corsica to parents of noble Italian ancestry and trained as an artillery officer in mainland Fra...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=69880 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Louis René Vialy, Alexandre Cabanel, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Charles Thévenin, Jacques Stella, Joseph André Cellony, Pierre Subleyras, Raymond Monvoisin, François-Guillaume Ménageot, François-Édouard Picot, Jean-François Pierre Peyron, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, Georges Rouget, François-André Vincent, Merry-Joseph Blondel, Guillaume-Joseph Roques. Excerpt:Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 23 January 1889) was a French painter . Cabanel was born in Montpellier , Hérault . He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat , Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III 's preferred painter . He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. Cabanel studied with François-Édouard Picot and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of twenty two. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in the same year. Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878. He was closely connected to the Paris Salon : "He was elected regularly to the Salon jury and his pupils could be counted by the hundred at the Salons. Through them, Cabanel did more than any other artist of his generation to form the character of belle époque French painting" . His refusal together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the impressionist painter Édouard Manet and other painters to exhibit their work in the Salon of 1863 led to the establishment of the Salon des Refusés . A successful academic painter, his 1863... ... Read more

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Robert Mapplethorpe never concealed his interest in and passion for the human figure in all its sensuous manifestations. His celebrated black-and-white photographs from the later part of the 20th century reveled in the athletic body, the nude body, the exquisite body. This groundbreaking exhibition and its accompanying catalogue explore the relationship between the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and Classical art, in particular through Mannerist engravings and sculpture. The pairing of works is among the first collaborations between the Guggenheim Museum and the State Hermitage Museum.Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition exemplifies the artist's rapport with the elongated and elaborate forms of Mannerist art, namely the study of the human body, highlighting the underlying classicism evident in the clarity and potency of all Mapplethorpe’s subjects as well as their explosive energy. The classical ideal was not only a poetic inspiration but also an ethical model and, in his creative quest, Mapplethorpe described photography as "the perfect way to make a sculpture." The potency of love and Eros, which electrifies many of the Mannerist works shown here, is articulated again in the work of Mapplethorpe. The vital anatomical forms of his portraits of models such as bodybuilder Lisa Lyons and the statuesque Derrick Cross find their roots in Antiquity, and here they find their mirror in the likes of Jan Harmensz Muller’s Sabine woman and Jacob Matham’s Apollo.The Hermitage’s superb collection of Italian painting and sculpture amply illustrates the course of Italian art from the Middle Ages to the 18th century and includes an impressive collection of Mannerist works. Approximately 50 Mannerist works from the Hermitage collection are paired with the same number of works by Mapplethorpe from the Guggenheim’s collection, are several Italian, French and Flemish bronze sculptures from the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Essays by the curators are included: Addressing the return to Classicism at the end of the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Arkady Ippolitov discusses the obsession that defines both the work of Mapplethorpe and the Mannerists. Germano Celant's text further explores the influence this 16th-century style had on Mapplethorpe’s artistic practice and sensibility, illuminating the artist’s interest in the study of pure form as well as allegorical imagery. Articulated in both word and image, the catalogue also traces Mapplethorpe’s complex relationship to the history of art more broadly, ranging from Neoclassicism to Surrealism, with comparisons to the work of Jacques-Louis David, Antonio Canova, Auguste Rodin, Man Ray, and more. A third essay by Guggenheim Curator Jennifer Blessing traces allegorical representations in 19th- and 20th-century photography, with references to Mapplethorpe’s oeuvre.Essays by Germano Celant, Jennifer Blessing, and Arkady Ippolitov.Hardcover, 10 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 168 color. ... Read more

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The Art Of Mapplethorpe, The Architecture Of The Human Body
This book combines astute background commentary and scholarly explanation with a solid selection of the late Robert Mapplethorpe's often striking photographic images, in this case those of the human form, and the result is an excellent book that showcases who this artist was, and what his work was about. It was in my hometown, of course, that "The Perfect Moment" a showing of Mapplethorpe's work about seventeen years ago led to the disgraceful obscenity prosecution of an art museum--the only such case ever pursued in the United States. I take it as a mark of some pride that the verdict in that case was not guilty, and, if I may add this, that my father was someone actively involved in the defense of the arts and the freedom of expression that helped in some fashion to uphold liberty in our community and nation. For that reason, as well as for its own merits, this book, a recent Christmas present, holds meaning to me.

The Classical Tradition
A fantastic reference in respect of Robert Mapplethorpe's more purist work. Amazingly well presented, printed and published, it has relevant accompanying text and essays, and as with most Mapplethrorpe images, the plates are simply brilliant. Be aware, this text is an important part of the book, so it's not all just pictures, but it asssists with giving an insight into the formalist manner in which the photographs were taken.
This book is for anyone with an interest in the Robert Mapplethorpe's work, or if you just want to own a record of some of the best photographs ever taken.

Mapplethorpe as Part of the Intellectual Museum Repertoire!
How far we've come!Not many years ago Robert Mapplethorpe's inimitable photographs were the cause célèbre in museums and galleries. Even journalists and politicians and filmmakers focused on the 'pornographic' aspects of Mapplethorpe's varied output.Yet today his place in the canon of art history is assured, and as proof of this status, here is a catalogue that accompanied an exhibition co-hosted by the prestigious Guggenheim Museum and the State Hermitage Museum of Russia!

The sophisticated curators have elected to compare and contrast the Mannerist prints and sculptures from the Hermitage with the photographs from the Guggenheim showing how Mapplethorpe's nudes and flowers and still lifes share much of the same obsession with eros and passion.Placing the etchings and sculptures side by side with Mapplethorpe's complementary photographs is a valid and informative curatorial concept.The result of this comparison heightens our appreciation for Mapplethorpe's photographic compositions and manipulations of the nude form.

The 'catalogue' book includes informed essays by Arkady Ippolitov,Germano Celant, Guggenheim Curator Jennifer Blessing - each beautifully written and each cogent on the subject of the juxtaposition of Mapplethorpe with the Mannerists.
The reproductions of both the photographs and the etchings and sculptures are superb.This is one museum catalogue that stands very well as an art history book.Recommended.Grady Harp, August 05 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Girodet-Trioson, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jacques-Louis David, Alexandre Cabanel, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Lucien Fontanarosa, Geoffroy Dauvergne, William Bouguereau, Alexis Simon Belle, Jean-Baptiste Debret, Jean le Merdy, Jean Honoré Fragonard, François-Joseph Heim, Antoine Watteau, Charles André Van Loo, Louis Galloche, Joseph-Désiré Court, Albert Besnard, Théobald Chartran, Lucien Jonas, Freddy Tiffou, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Pierre Dulin, François Boucher, Lionel Royer, Nicolas Untersteller, Guillaume Guillon Lethière, Bon Boullogne, Édouard Debat-Ponsan, Léon Bonnat, Louis-Michel Van Loo, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Léon Cogniet, Louis de Boullogne, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, Marcel Baschet, Joseph-Marie Vien, Jean-Jacques Henner, Thomas Couture, Paul Ambille, Jean-Pierre Granger, Nicolas Delobel, Jean Dupas, Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Colleville, Pierre Bouillon, Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte Du Nouÿ, Robert Savary, Tony Tollet, Paul Baudry, Jean Bardin, Marcelle Deloron, Hippolyte Flandrin, François-Édouard Picot, Louis Gauffier, Pierre Bodard, Merry-Joseph Blondel, Gustave Boulanger, Antoine Blanchard, François-Guillaume Ménageot, Alexandre Abel de Pujol, Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Henri Regnault, Édouard Toudouze, Jérôme-Martin Langlois, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, Pierre Peyron, Henri Pinta, Jules-Élie Delaunay, Félix-Henri Giacomotti, Louis Vuillermoz, Jean-Achille Benouville, Carle Vernet, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Charles-Philippe Larivière, Auguste Leroux, Aimé Morot, Noël Hallé, Isidore Pils, François-André Vincent, Luc-Olivier Merson, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, François-Maurice Roganeau, Reynold Arnould, Léon Comerre, Ernest Hébert, Étienn...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 963 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. Includes articles written by eminent scholars covering major topics in art, government, and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. Also covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish Inquisition, Utopia and others. ... Read more