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Book well documented and well illustrated,
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This review is from: Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (Hardcover)
It is the catalog of a recent exhibition of works of Jacques-Louis David, mostly portraits and drawings, the text presents many details, and illustrations of the portraits are superb.
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Jacques-Louis Eavid: Empire to Exile,
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What a great book, and what a man, survived three dinastes, painted like no other and inspired a nation to glory. Buy it and enjoy a wonderful story.
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A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC MASTER,
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This review is from: Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (Hardcover)
This excellent book published on the occasion of an exhibition
presents two remarkable personalities of this painter - a celebrated and controversial painter of his time and his connection with Napoleon Buonaparte.The second helped him in the way to the admiration , after a revolutionary republican beginning.The first cannot forget a notable draftman and painter,with followers such as Gros , Ingres,Thévenin,... Even in the exile,his portraits are precious.Connecting or not one part of his life as official painter of Napoleon, forgetting or not his revolutionary starting , David remains ,as Stendhal defended , the greatest painter of 18th century. |
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Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile by Philippe Bordes (Hardcover - April 8, 2005)
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