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TitleOath of the Horatii

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1784

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite, pen and ink, gray wash, chalk highlights

LocationPalais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France

https://pba.lille.fr/Collections/Chefs-d-OEuvre/Dessins-et-photo-graphies/Le-serment-des-Horaces

Accession numberPl.1194

SubjectsNeoclassicism (Art)OathsDrawing, FrenchArtists' preparatory studies

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Chapter VII: David and the Salon

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

To judge from David’s planning for the Salon of 1783, the “modesty” discerned by the author of Mémoires secrets seems closer to the mark than does any desire to reach over the heads of his superiors to some radicalized public...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.211-254

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.8

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Chapter subject tags:David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Art criticism--France--History--18th centuryFrance--History--Revolution, 1789-1799Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceArt, French--18th century--ExhibitionsHistory painting, French--18th century

III. Aspects of Neoclassic Architecture

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~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...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.107-145

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.3

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Architecture)Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821Architecture, Classical, in artHistoricism in architectureAdam, Robert, 1728-1792Architecture, British--18th centuryArchitecture, British--Classical influencesPainting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--18th centuryArchitecture, French--18th centuryIngres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867

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