Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France
David's martyr portrait, which was painted during the Terror, honored both the individual and the collective. Because its subject was already dead, it could symbolize every revolutionary. The same could not be said about masculinity, however, for a new type of manliness was needed both to repla...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Eighteenth-century studies 2017, Vol.50 (2), p.260-262 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | David's martyr portrait, which was painted during the Terror, honored both the individual and the collective. Because its subject was already dead, it could symbolize every revolutionary. The same could not be said about masculinity, however, for a new type of manliness was needed both to replace the king's paternal authority and unite the revolutionary band of brothers under fraternity, liberty, and equality. |
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| ISSN: | 0013-2586 1086-315X |
| DOI: | 10.1353/ecs.2017.0009 |