- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (5 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300123469
- ISBN-13: 978-0300123463
- Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 965,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Louise Govier, The Art Book, February 2006
'Bordes gives...his encyclopaedic knowledge...of the artistic, social and political histories of the period... [There is] a wealth of archival material'
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Evening Standard, 17 August 2007
`The impeccable scholarship of Bordes is matched by handsome presentation and fine plates; I know of no better book [on Jacques-Louis David]'
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ON 4 AUGUST 1795 the famous painter Jacques-Louis David, former president of the National Convention, the "house of representatives" to which he had been elected deputy by the Parisians in the fall of 1792, was allowed to go home after a confinement of several months in prison. Read the first page
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ON 4 AUGUST 1795 the famous painter Jacques-Louis David, former president of the National Convention, the "house of representatives" to which he had been elected deputy by the Parisians in the fall of 1792, was allowed to go home after a confinement of several months in prison. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Book well documented and well illustrated
2 Jan 2010
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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.
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Jacques-Louis Eavid: Empire to Exile
5 Feb 2010
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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.
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A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC MASTER
24 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
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.
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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