Girodet versus Géricault or the romantic battle of the Salon of 1819.
Lienart| N° d'inventaire | 22131 |
| Format | 25 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 400 p., bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359062977 |
At the 1819 Salon, Girodet's "Pygmalion and Galatea," emblematic of the neoclassical school of art, and Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa," standard-bearer of an aesthetic avant-garde, clashed. The duel was at the heart of the Romantic battle that was emerging at the time and that would animate the following Salons. It is this major event on the French art scene that the exhibition and the dedicated catalog intend to commemorate around the famous figures of these two artists. The book offers a panorama of the richness and diversity of post-revolutionary French art—neoclassicism, romanticism, anacreonticism, orientalism, the autonomy of landscapes, the revival of religious painting—as well as technical innovations such as lithography. The relationships between political powers and artists, as well as the development and importance of criticism, are detailed to paint a fair portrait of this historical moment.
At the 1819 Salon, Girodet's "Pygmalion and Galatea," emblematic of the neoclassical school of art, and Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa," standard-bearer of an aesthetic avant-garde, clashed. The duel was at the heart of the Romantic battle that was emerging at the time and that would animate the following Salons. It is this major event on the French art scene that the exhibition and the dedicated catalog intend to commemorate around the famous figures of these two artists. The book offers a panorama of the richness and diversity of post-revolutionary French art—neoclassicism, romanticism, anacreonticism, orientalism, the autonomy of landscapes, the revival of religious painting—as well as technical innovations such as lithography. The relationships between political powers and artists, as well as the development and importance of criticism, are detailed to paint a fair portrait of this historical moment.