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Pressly, William L., 1944-

The French Revolution as blasphemy : Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 / William L. Pressly. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color). - California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 6 . - California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 6. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index.

A checkered career -- The Journ�ee of August 10, 1792 -- A modern Bacchanal: Plundering the King's cellar at Paris -- The furies of Hell: Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers -- Thesis and antithesis: an antiheroic art -- Counterrevolutionary propaganda -- Religious transcendence.

ISBN: 9780520920309 0520920309 0585178380 9780585178387

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers, August 12, 1792.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810 --Criticism and interpretation.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810. Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers, August 12, 1792.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810 --Critique et interpr�etation.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 (Zoffany, Johann)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1792

Subjects--Topical Terms:
ART--History--General.
Franse Revolutie.
Schilderijen.
Visual Arts.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Painting.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--History--Insurrection, 1792--Art and the insurrection.
France.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanni�e en Noord-Ierland.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

LC Class. No.: ND497.Z6 / A72 1999eb

Dewey Class. No.: 759.2