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The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Dr Ross King (Paperback, 2007)

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The acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling paints a dazzling portrait of late-nineteenth century France and of the painters who were emblematic of the struggle between old and new - a struggle which resulted in the birth of Impressionism. In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe and ending in 1974 with the first 'Impressionist' exhibition, Ross King plunges into Parisian life during a ten-year period full of social and political ferment with his usual narrative brillliance. These were the years in which Napoleon III's autocratic and pleasure-seeking Second Empire fell from its heights into the ignominy of the Franco-Prussian war and the ensuing Paris Commune of 1871. But it was also a period in which a group of artists, with Manet in the vanguard began to challenge the establishment by turning to the landscapes and ordinary people they saw around them. The struggle between Meissonier and Manet to get their paintings exhibited in pride of place at the Salon was not just about art, it was about how to see the world.

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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781844134076
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90924053

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Book Title
The Judgement of Paris: the Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Author
Dr Ross King
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
464 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
331g

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Dr Ross King
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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