Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile

by Philippe Bordes

Book Overview

Now available in paperback. This beautifully illustrated book, originally published in 2005 in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, is the first to examine the transformation of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300104472
• ISBN13: 9780300104479
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 5.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.5" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Jacques-Louis Eavid: Empire to Exile

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.

Book well documented and well illustrated

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.

A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC MASTER

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.