Art and The Age of Revolution

ARTF 1007

• The French Revolution as a political, social and cultural revolution.

• The French Revolution as a break with what had gone before.

• The French Revolution is also to be defined with reference to what had gone before.

Anon, Goodbye Bastille, 1789, etching

Hubert Robert, Demolition of Bastille, 1789, oil on canvas

After J. Boze, Louis XVI, 1775, stipple engraving

Villeneuve,May our Fields run with an impure blood, 1793, etching

After J-L David, Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau, drawing

L-L Boilly, The Standard-Bearer of the Civic Festival, c. 1792-3

L-L Boilly, The Triumph of Marat, 1794, oil on paper

A-L Girodet, Citizen Belley, 1797, oil on canvas