The Final Spectacle : : Military Painting under the Second Empire, 1855-1867 / / Julia Thoma.
The book examines military paintings in France in the 1850s and 1860s, when the genre experienced a new lease of life. It recreates the paintings’ art-historical, historical and social context, and considers the explosion of military subjects in their own right rather than as a consequence of war re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abstract
- Introduction
- I. Military Paintings in 1855
- II. The Second Empire’s Influence on Military Paintings
- III. Painting the Crimean War
- IV. Yvon’s Bataille de Solférino (1861) and the Decline of the Spectacular Mode
- V. Genre Paintings of Military Subjects
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Image Credits