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Hardcover Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France Book

ISBN: 0271029633

ISBN13: 9780271029634

Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France

One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae, hangs today in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, Chains embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.

In addition to David, Chains explores the sculptural oeuvre of David's contemporary and rival, Italian sculptor Antonio Canova...

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