Chains - David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France

One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, "Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae", hangs in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, this work embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.

About the author

Satish Padiyar is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is an Associate Research Scholar at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where he teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art.

Summary

One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, "Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae", hangs in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, this work embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.

Product details

• Authors: Satish Padiyar, Satish (University College Padiyar, Padiyar Satish
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2007
• EAN: 9780271029634
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02963-4
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 1247 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; France, ART / European, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Painting & paintings, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, Paintings and painting, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo