ARTH 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Horse Fair, Grande Odalisque, Gustave Courbet
5 Mar 2019
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La madeleine- pierre-alexandre barth l my vignon: temple of glory for napoleon"s armies, linked/likened the napoleonic and roman empires. Coronation of napoleon- jacques-louis david: crowning his wife with the pope as witness, underscoring the emperor"s authority and independence from the church, done at the insistence of napoleon himself. Pauline borghese as venus victorious- antonio canova: napoleons favourite sculptor, his sister as the nude roman goddess of love, marble statue inspired by classical models. Napoleon visiting the plague-stricken in jaffa- antione-jean gros: depicts napoleon as a christlike healer, foreshadows romanticism. Apotheosis of homer- jean-auguste-dominique ingres: inspired by school of athens, ingres favourite painter, neoclassical celebration of homer and other ancient worthies, these include dante and select french authors. Grande odalisque- jean-auguste-dominique ingres: reclining female nude, greco-roman subject, converted into an odalisque in a turkish harem, consistent with the new romantic taste for the exotic.
