Quatremere De Quincy - Art and Politics During the French Revolution

About the author

David Gilks was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then won a Henry Fellowship to Harvard. After returning to Cambridge for his doctoral thesis, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University London. He is currently Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. His research has been published in The Historical Journal, French Historical Studies and Urban History and he is the first English-language translator of Quatremère de Quincy's Letters on the Plan to Abduct Monuments of Art from Italy.

Summary

Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution is a thoroughly researched and richly detailed contextual study of the most eventful period in Quatremère's life, but it also offers an original and unfamiliar history of the French Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: David Gilks, David (Lecturer in Modern European History Gilks
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198745563
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874556-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Architecture, France, European History, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, ARCHITECTURE / General, ART / European, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, French Revolution, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions