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Author Pressly, William L., 1944-

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
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810
SUBJECT Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 (Zoffany, Johann) fast
Subject ART -- History -- General.
ART / European
Franse Revolutie.
Schilderijen.
France -- History -- Insurrection, 1792 -- Art and the insurrection
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