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Author Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo.

Title Extremities : painting empire in post-revolutionary France / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description xi, 393 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents 1. Black revolution. Saint-Domingue. Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies, 1797 -- 2. Plague. Egypt-Syria. Gros's Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa, 1804 -- 3. Revolt. Egypt. Girodet's Revolt of Cairo, 1810 -- 4. Cannibalism. Senegal. Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, 1819 -- 5. Blood-mixing. Ottoman Greece. Delacroix's Massacre of Chios, 1814 -- 6. White slavery. Ottoman Africa. Delacroix's Greece on the ruins of Missolonghi, 1826
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-383) and index
Subject Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863 -- Criticism and interpretation
Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863 -- Criticism and interpretation.
GeÌricault, TheÌodore, 1791-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation
Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Exoticism in art.
Imperialism in art.
History in art.
Exoticism in art -- France.
Painting, French -- 19th century.
SUBJECT France -- History -- 1789-1900 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051347 -- Art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001934
France -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051347
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824.
Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835.
Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824.
Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863.
LC no. 2002514008
ISBN 0300088876
Other Titles Painting empire in post-revolutionary France