Staging Empire
Subtitle: Napoleon, Ingres, And David
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: January 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780271028583
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Oils; c 1800 to c 1900; Art; Art & Art Instruction; European; History - General; 19th century; Art and state; Art, French; France; History; Political aspects
Description: "Staging Empire focuses on two landmark paintings that celebrated Napoleon's coronation: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (1806) and Jacques-Louis David's Le Sacre (1805-7). In an unprecedented collaboration, two scholars investigate these masterpieces in their broad cultural context. This book is an illustrated, extensively documented, analytical tour de force. Coronation pictures may seem to be all about the past, but they were produced to guarantee a future of empire whose military, media, and geopolitical practices are still with us today."--BOOK JACKET.