David to Delacroix [electronic resource] : the rise of romantic mythology / Dorothy Johnson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art historyPublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 233 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 704.9/4892130944 22
LOC classification:
  • N7760 .J64 2011eb
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Contents:
Introduction. 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 -- Conclusion. The continuum of myth.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. 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 -- Conclusion. The continuum of myth.

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