Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe write by Christopher M. S. Johns. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe
The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe write by Christopher Fletcher. This book was released on 2018-02-02. The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power. Until very recently in historical terms, formal political authority in Europe was normally and ideally held by adult males, with female power being perceived as a recurrent aberration. Yet paradoxically the study of the interactions between masculinity and political culture is still very much in its infancy. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna by considering the different consequences of the masculinity of power over two millennia of European history. It examines how masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth century and the present day.
Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe write by Melissa Hyde. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with cultural production, the project of Enlightenment, and the public sphere have been the subjects of ground-breaking historical and literary studies in recent decades, women's engagement with the arts remains one of the richest and most under-explored areas for scholarly investigation. This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as "patronized" artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women's artistic production and patronage during the eighteenth century. By opening up the specific problems and conflicts inherent in women's artistic involvements from the perspective of what was at stake for the eighteenth-century women themselves, it also acts as a corrective to the generalizing and stereotyping about the prominence of those women, which is too often present in current day literature. Some essays are concerned with how women's involvement in the arts allowed them to fashion identities for themselves (whether national, political, religious, intellectual, artistic, or gender-based) and how such self-fashioning in turn enabled them to negotiate or intervene in the public domains of culture and politics where "The Woman Question" was so hotly debated. Other essays examine how men's patronage of women also served as a vehicle for self-fashioning for both artist and sponsor. Artists and patrons discussed include: Carriera; Queen Lovisa Ulrike and Chardin; the Bourbon Princesses Mlle Clermont, Mme Adélaïde and Nattier; the Duchess of Osuna and Goya; Marie-Antoinette and Vigée-Lebrun; Labille-Guiard; Queen Carolina of Naples, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski of Poland and Kauffman; David and his students, Mesdames Benoist, Lavoisier and Mongez.
The Caesar of Paris
The Caesar of Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Caesar of Paris write by Susan Jaques. This book was released on 2018-12-04. The Caesar of Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Napoleon is one of history’s most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome—both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts with the Pope and Holy See—have undergone little examination. In The Caesar of Paris, Susan Jaques reveals how Napoleon’s dueling fascination and rivalry informed his effort to turn Paris into “the new Rome”— Europe’s cultural capital—through architectural and artistic commissions around the city. His initiatives and his aggressive pursuit of antiquities and classical treasures from Italy gave Paris much of the classical beauty we know and adore today.Napoleon had a tradition of appropriating from past military greats to legitimize his regime—Alexander the Great during his invasion of Egypt, Charlemagne during his coronation as emperor, even Frederick the Great when he occupied Berlin. But it was ancient Rome and the Caesars that held the most artistic and political influence and would remain his lodestars. Whether it was the Arc de Triopmhe, the Venus de Medici in the Louvre, or the gorgeous works of Antonio Canova, Susan Jaques brings Napoleon to life as never before.
Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe write by Robert Justin Goldstein. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use of censorship by the authorities to implement their fears of the visual arts, from caricature to cinema.
