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

Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 6 California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 6. Contents 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 Summary 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 the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers, both painted in about 1794, represent events that helped turn the English against the Revolution. Pressly places both paintings in their historical context--a time of heightened anti-French hysteria--and relates them to pictorial conventions: contemporary history painting, the depiction of urban mobs in satiric and festival imagery, and Hogarth's humorous presentation of modern moral subjects, all of which Zoffany adopted and reinvented for his own purposes. Pressly relates the paintings to Zoffany's status as a German-born Catholic living in Protestant England and to Zoffany's vision of revolutionary justice and the role played by the sansculottes, women, and blacks. He also examines the religious dimension in Zoffany's paintings, showing how they broke new ground by conveying Christian themes in a radically new format. Art historians will find Pressly's book of immense value, as will cultural historians interested in religion, gender, and race Analysis art devoted to french revolution art historians close analysis of french paintings contemporary history painting convey christian themes in new format cultural historians depiction of urban mobs heightened anti french hysteria hogarths presentation of modern moral subjects in satiric and festival imagery places paintings in historical context religious dimension in paintings turn english against revolution volume six Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index Notes Print version record Subject Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792. Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers, August 12, 1792. Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810 fast Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 (Zoffany, Johann) fast Subject ART -- History -- General. ART / European Franse Revolutie. Schilderijen. SUBJECT France -- History -- Insurrection, 1792 -- Art and the insurrection Subject France Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. ISBN 9780520920309 0520920309 0585178380 9780585178387

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