After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda Under Napoleon

by David O'Brien

The masses ... must be guided without their noticing it. Napoleon to Joseph Fouche, his minister of police Napoleon and Antoine-Jean Gros first met in 1796 in Italy, where the young French painter was working as a portraitist and attempting to recover from the upheavals of the French Revolution. The meeting changed Gros s life. Soon thereafter, he was making paintings Napoleon Visiting the Battlefield of Eylau , N apoleon Visiting the Plague-Stricken...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023058
• ISBN13: 9780271023052
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 11.7"