ARTH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great St Bernard Pass, John Flaxman, Antonio Canova
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Produced small quantities of luxury goods for lower classes. Would higher trained artist to design for his ceramics. The pegasus vase (apotheosis of homer) 1786: homer author of idiom and the odyssey. The french revolution: toppled order, elizabeth-louise vigee-lebrun. Late 18th and early to mid-19th century art in europe and north america. Ruled over all countries under western europe. Deposed in 1814 and attempted a comeback in 1815 that was unsuccessful. Commissioned painters and sculptors: jacques-louis david. Bonaparte crossing the great saint bernard pass (1801) The emperor napoleon in his study at the tuileries (1812) First painter to napoleon: antoine-jean gros. It was important to napoleon that the image be praised in a positive light since he was portrayed as negative. Napoleon bonaparte as mars (1808: napoleon wants to be shown as god of war; found it too athletic and didn"t like it.
