After the Revolution
Subtitle: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: April 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780271023052
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Art; Biography / Autobiography; Europe; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Historical - General; History - General; 1771-1835; Biography; France; Gros, Antoine-Jean,; History in art; Painters; baron,
Description: David O'Brien's "After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda Under Napoleon" is the first comprehensive study in over a century to examine Gros's career, from his beginnings in David's studio to his Napoleonic successes and tragic end, focusing on the artist's work within the context of Napoleon's regime and the institutional machinery that regulated the arts.