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Napoleon and his artists

Main Author: Wilson-Smith, Timothy.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: London : Constable, 1996.
Physical Description: xxx, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- France -- Paris.
Art and state -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The first French revolutions
  • The Republic becomes dictatorial
  • The art of becoming a hero
  • Le style Directoire (1795-9)
  • From First Consul to Emperor
  • Imperial designers
  • Imperial fashion and the painters' models
  • Imperial artists: painters and sculptors
  • The Napoleonic Empire and the diffusion of Empire decor
  • Continental blockade and the defeat of Empire style
  • Denon and the art of conquest
  • The failure of the Napoleonic Epic.

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