The French Revolution as blasphemy : Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792

Author

Pressly, William L.

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Collection

California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; Num. 6.

Source

The French Revolution as blasphemy : Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792. 1999, xxiii, 211 p., ill. (some col.), sel. bibliogr., index

ISBN

0-520-21196-0

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Focuses on two ca.1794 works by Zoffany: Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 (Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum) and Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers (Museen der Stadt Regensburg). Pressly places them in their historical context 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 themes, all of which Zoffany adopted and reinvented for his own purposes. Appendix catalogues Zoffany's paintings of the French Revolution.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- United Kingdom
• Zoffany, Johann Joseph, 1733-1810
• Great Britain
• 1700-1800
• Painting
• Revolution (France: 1789-1799)
• Iconography
• Wadsworth Atheneum||Hartford (CT, USA)
• Museen der Stadt Regensburg||Regensburg (DEU)
• Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792
• Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers, August 12, 1792
• Massacres

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Royaume-Uni
• Zoffany, Johann Joseph, 1733-1810
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1700-1800
• Peinture
• Révolution (France: 1789-1799)
• Iconographie
• Wadsworth Atheneum||Hartford (CT, USA)
• Museen der Stadt Regensburg||Regensburg (DEU)
• Pillage de la cave du roi, le 10 août 1792
• Célébration sur les corps des soldats suisses, le 12 août 1792
• Massacre

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00211103

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