Monuments, martyrdom, and the politics of religion in the French Third Republic

Author

McWilliam, Neil

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art bulletin. 1995, Num. 2, Vol. 77, 186-206, 18 ill.

ISSN

0004-3079

Abstract (en)

The years around 1900 witnessed violent religious controversy in France, aggravated by political upheavals such as the Dreyfus affair. This climate fostered a series of public monuments to historical figures identified as victims of confessional conflict. Centering on three monuments to Michael Servetus, by Jean Baffier (1908, Paris), Joseph Bernard (1911, Vienne), and Clotilde Roch (1908, Annemasse), examines the appropriation of former victims of religious intolerance by contending factions in the ideological battlefield of the Belle Epoque and explores the broader connotations of the commemorative process during the Third Republic.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- France
• Commemorative monuments
• France
• 1900-2000
• Iconography
• Servet, Michel, ca.1511-1553
• Religion
• Baffier, Jean-Eugène, 1851-1920
• Monument to Michel Servet
• Paris (FRA)
• Bernard, Joseph-Antoine, 1866-1931
• Vienne (FRA)
• Roch, Clotilde, b.1867
• Annemasse (FRA)
• Ideology
• Switzerland

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- France
• Monument commémoratif
• France
• 1900-2000
• Iconographie
• Servet, Michel, v.1511-1553
• Religion
• Baffier, Jean-Eugène, 1851-1920
• Monument à Michel Servet
• Paris (FRA)
• Bernard, Joseph-Antoine, 1866-1931
• Vienne (FRA)
• Roch, Clotilde, n.1867
• Annemasse (FRA)
• Idéologie
• Suisse

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19951001-00322369

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