The temperamental nude : class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century France /
Halliday, Tony(Anthony)
Oxford : Voltaire Foundation,
2010.
The natural order -- The labour of love -- Temperament and the body -- Temperament and the ideal : ancient and modern -- The citizen body : the politics of abstraction -- A body one and indivisible : Jacobin representations of the people -- The labels of Hercules : representing the body after Thermidor -- The trouble with Tatius : David's Sabines and the end of public art.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.
Art, French
Medicine in art.
Social classes in art.
Figurative art, French