Desire and Excess
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780691049137
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Poetry & poets: 19th century; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Arts, Modern; 19th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art; History - General; Historiography; History - Neoclassical; 19th century; Art and literature; Artists; History
First sentence: JACQUES LOUIS DAVID'S epochal Oath of the Horatii (1785) is currently at the Louvre, continuing a centuries-old institutional affiliation; Henry Fuseli's more modest drawing, The Artist in Despair before the Magnitude of Antique Ruins (1778-79), is to be found at the Zurich Kunsthaus.