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List of illustrations

  • The Sale of Cupids
  • Selling of Cupids
  • Who'll Buy Cupids?
  • Selling of Cupids
  • Drawing after Selling of Cupids
  • Sextus the Son of Pompey Applying to Erictho to Know the Fate of the Battle of Pharsalia
  • The Wounded Philoctetes
  • Fury of Athamas
  • Hercules and Lichas
  • Warrior and Youth (Hector and Troilus?)
  • Eagle Bringing the Cup to Psyche
  • Torture of a Vestal Virgin
  • Athenian Youths Drawing Lots
  • Clytemnestra
  • Love Fleeing Slavery
  • Ariadne
  • The Corinthian Maid
  • Sappho
  • Zeuxis Choosing as Models the Most Beautiful Girls of Crotona
  • Hector's Farewell
  • Reconstruction of Polygnotos' Sack of Troy
  • Reconstruction of Polygnotos' Sack of Troy
  • Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector
  • Mort de Méléagre
  • The Death of Germanicus
  • Death of Germanicus
  • Death of Germanicus
  • The Death of Viriatus, Chief of the Lusitanians
  • Death of Du Guesclin
  • Death of Leonardo da Vinci
  • Homage Offered to Raphael after His Death
  • The Punished Son
  • Last Moments of a Beloved Wife
  • Death of Xavier Bichat
  • Tender memory (Le tendre ressouvenir)
  • Tomb of Comte Henri-Claude d'Harcourt
  • Andromache's Mourning Hector
  • Andromache Weeping over the Ashes of Hector
  • Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
  • Valentine de Milan
  • Two Widows of an Indian Officer
  • Indian Widow
  • Malvina Mourning Oscar
  • Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing
  • The Village Bride
  • Parnassus
  • Christ Healing the Paralytic
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son
  • Elisha Raising the Shunammite's Son
  • Septimius Severus and Caracalla
  • The Justice of Trajan
  • Marcus Aurelius Distributing Food and Medicine
  • Continence of Scipio
  • Continence of Bayard
  • Widow Costard's cow and goods, distrained for taxes, are redeemed by the generosity of Johnny Pearmain
  • Caius Furius Cressinus Accused of Sorcery
  • Curius Dentatus Refusing the Gifts of the Samnites
  • Fabricius Refuses the Presents the Ambassadors from Pyrrhus Had Been Ordered to Offer Him
  • Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
  • Courage of Portia
  • The Funeral of Militiades
  • Fidelity of a Satrap of Darius
  • Zeal of Mattathias
  • Antiochus and Eleazar
  • Death of Virginia
  • Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta
  • Manlius Torquatus Condemning his Son to Death
  • Death of Camilla
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • The Death of Lucretia
  • The Oath of Hannibal
  • Oath on the Rütli
  • Death of Seneca
  • Death of Socrates
  • Death of Socrates
  • Death of Socrates
  • Farewell of Calas
  • Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
  • The Triumph of the French People
  • Triumph of the French People, detail
  • The Oath of the Tennis Court
  • Death of Marat
  • Saint Cecilia
  • The Death of Joseph Bara
  • Tharsicus
  • Piety and Generosity of Roman Women
  • Patriotic Donation by Famous Frenchwomen, September 21, 1789
  • Generosity of Roman Women
  • Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, study
  • Departure of the Volunteers
  • The Return of Marcus Sextus
  • The Intervention of the Sabine Women
  • Heroism of the Young Désilles at the Affair of Nancy, August 30, 1790
  • Timoleon and the Syracusans
  • Agriculture
  • Distribution of Eagles, December 5, 1804
  • Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799)
  • Act of Humanity
  • Mr. Howard Offering Relief to Prisoners
  • Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau
  • Battle at Eylau
  • Return of Napoleon I to the Island of Lobau after the Battle of Essling, May 23, 1809
  • Bonaparte Pardoning the Rebels of Cairo
  • Clemency of Napoleon toward Mlle. de Saint-Simon, Who Asks Pardon for Her Father
  • Metellus Saved by His Son
  • Josephine at the Hospice de la Maternité
  • Louis XVI Distributing Alms to the Poor during the Winter of 1788
  • Justice of Trajan
  • Death of Seneca
  • The Awakening Conscience
  • The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
  • Drawing of Buildings at Kew Gardens
  • Architect's Dream
  • Osterley Park, façade
  • The Etruscan dressing-room, Osterley Park
  • Remodeling of Choir, St. Medárd
  • Frontispiece to the Comte de Volney
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ruins of Paestrum
  • Ruins of a Temple
  • Parc Monceau
  • The Course of Empire: Desolation
  • Désert de Retz (near Chambourcy)
  • Temple de la Philosophie moderne
  • Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli
  • Tomb of Rousseau, Ermenonville
  • Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
  • Corinne at Cape Miseno
  • Laiterie, Rambouillet
  • Le Rocher, Folie Sainte-James, Neuilly
  • Hôtel Thélusson, Paris
  • Circus of Maxentius
  • Barrière de Courcelles (destroyed), Paris
  • Project for La Maison du Bûcheron, Saline de Chaux
  • Project for La Maison des Gardes Agricoles at Maupertuis
  • Project for a Hospice, Saline de Chaux
  • SS. Pierre et Paul
  • Hôtel de Salm, Paris
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • Barrière de Clichy, Paris
  • Timoleon, study
  • House for M. X***
  • Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles
  • Design for Revolutionary Pageant, Lyons, May 30, 1790
  • Rue des Colonnes
  • Rue des Colonnes, Paris
  • La Madeleine
  • La Bourse, Paris
  • Rue de Castiglione, Paris
  • Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
  • Place de la Bastille
  • The Apotheosis of Homer
  • Antiochus and Stratonice
  • Rehearsal of Le Joueur de Flûte and La Femme de Diomède
  • Pompeianum
  • Design for a Museum
  • Glyptothek
  • National Gallery of Art
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Walhalla
  • Opening of the Walhalla in 1842
  • Temple
  • The Primitive Buildings &c.
  • Project for a Dairy at Hammels, Herts
  • Rustic Temple, Château of Ermeonville, ca. 1770
  • Tahitian Hut
  • Paestum
  • Royal Institution
  • Stonehenge
  • Architecture: its Natural Model
  • Hypostyle Hall
  • Galleries
  • Roman House
  • Roman House (basement level), detail
  • Design for an Arsenal
  • Design for a Gatehouse
  • Temple
  • Cemetery entrance gate project ("characterising the genre of buried architecture of shadows"). Elevation
  • Design for a City Gate
  • Meeting at the Golden Gate
  • Altar of Good Fortune
  • Women's Prison (formerly Casern)
  • Gatehouse
  • Breach in a City: The Morning after the Battle
  • Death of Cordelia
  • Songs of Experience, title page
  • Thetis Finds Archilles Mourning over the Corpse of Patroclus
  • Triumphal arch surmounted by Britannia
  • Prayer of the Daughters of Danaüs (from the Suppliants)
  • A Procession of Trojan Women Lamenting
  • The Body of Christ Borne to the Tomb
  • Oath of the Seven Against Thebes
  • Figures from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
  • Jacob and Esau from Gates of Paradise, detail
  • Thetis Calling Briareus to the Aid of Jupiter
  • Fall of Lucifer
  • Limbo, the Guiltless Throng
  • Celestial Steps
  • Circle of Angels around the Sun
  • Beatific Vision
  • Death of Jocasta
  • Lucifer
  • Lucifer
  • Allegory
  • Procession of Monks
  • Hypocrites
  • Venus Wounded by Diomedes
  • Heroes in the Tent of Achilles
  • Jason's Arrival at Iolcos
  • Venus Wounded by Diomedes
  • Battle of Austerlitz
  • A Vision: The Inspiration of the Poet (Elisha in the Chamber on the Wall)
  • Houses at L'Estaque
  • Room at San Gaëtano
  • The Red Studio
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Description: Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art
~IN ART, as in history, the late eighteenth century created such profound breaches with the past that today, in the late twentieth century, we are still grappling with the problems that then announced the dawn of a new era. In histories of art, this period of unprecedented complexity has generally been divided into the two presumably antagonistic...
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~IN HISTORIES of painting, the most familiar demonstration of that new mid eighteenth...
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~THE UNCOMMON heroism of a Hector or a Germanicus, the noble tears of an Andromache or an Agrippina—such high moments from...
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~FROM the mid eighteenth century on, Historicism pervaded architecture as thoroughly as it had the other arts. In fact, this new viewpoint has usually been pointed out more clearly in histories of architectureFor English-speaking readers the term has become familiar...
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~OF THE many complementary and even contradictory currents that are bracketed loosely under the heading of “Neoclassic” architecture, the most vital seem motivated by that late eighteenth century spirit of drastic reform which found its most radical culmination in the political revolutions of America and France. In an effort to establish a...
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