ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Louis Xvii Of France, History Painting, Horatii
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Final exam info: architecture, know name and location. Works were made to reflect that time period, to understand artists that were trying to make social change. After napoleon, new kings were reinstated from past family. Same rules as the past kings because same lineage. End of reign caused a small revolution. Exhibited at salon, history painting (but created within the same decade) Nowadays, history paintings were not centuries earlier, but a few years earlier. 150 were left alone to fend for themselves on a raft. Captain had never sailed a ship before, so he didn"t know what he was doing. Men are waving at the ship off in the distance. The government, they were supposed to get the colonists to. Gericault got a lot of praise for the amount and skilled painting of bodies. King loved the painting and accepted it into the royal collection, despite its content.
