David to Delacroix : the rise of romantic mythology /
In this illustrated study of intellectual and art history, the author explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depictio...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.
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Table of Contents:
- David and the rise of romantic mythology
- Eros and the origins of art: Girodet's mythic meditations
- From Eros to Thanatos: the mapping of the mythological body
- Ingres and the enigma
- Mythological madness and the feminine: from Gros's suicidal Sappho to Delacroix's murderous Medea
- The continuum of myth.
