ARTH 070B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Horatii, Caspar David Friedrich
6 Aug 2018
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Artist of monarchy, paintings celebrated of goals of grand manners. After reign of terror david in prisoned, divirced then remarried asfter released then partnerd with napoleon. David, napoleon crossing the alps, 1800, oil on canvas. Great exaggeration, not that tall /not actual horse it was a donkey/ alps was snowing. During the begin of monarchy reform, and trying to depict her as an ordinary mother. She sided of the side of the revolutionaries. She would"ve been more famous if circumstances were different. A serious craftsman and silversmith, involved with the boston tea party. No wig /no tie /no button collar, craftsman!! John trumbull, death of general warren at the battle of bunker hill, june 17,1775, 1786, oil on canvas. David, coronation of napoleon and josephine, 1807, oil on canvas. Romanticism exaggerates it or twists it to make an emotion in the audience.
