The Vincent of The Perfect Foil is an artist whose life and work responded to cultural conditionsreligious difference, emotional bonds, institutional pressuresonly now finding their way into art historical accounts of the period. A successful academician despite his status as a member of the Protestant minority, a leading reformer of arts institutions during the Revolution, the progenitor of French Romanticism, and the husband of one of the period’s most celebrated women artists, François-André Vincent emerges in these pages as an embodiment of the ambivalences and contradictions of life in France in the wake of the Enlightenment.
By giving us a detailed and faithful portrait of this artist poised at the turning point of history, Mansfield restores a critically important body of work to its rightful place in the story of French art and reorients Revolutionary-era French art history toward a broader, more inclusive understanding of the period.
The Vincent of The Perfect Foil is an artist whose life and work responded to cultural conditionsreligious difference, emotional bonds, institutional pressuresonly now finding their way into art historical accounts of the period. A successful academician despite his status as a member of the Protestant minority, a leading reformer of arts institutions during the Revolution, the progenitor of French Romanticism, and the husband of one of the period’s most celebrated women artists, François-André Vincent emerges in these pages as an embodiment of the ambivalences and contradictions of life in France in the wake of the Enlightenment.
By giving us a detailed and faithful portrait of this artist poised at the turning point of history, Mansfield restores a critically important body of work to its rightful place in the story of French art and reorients Revolutionary-era French art history toward a broader, more inclusive understanding of the period.
The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting
320The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting
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ISBN-13: | 9780816675814 |
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Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
Publication date: | 12/21/2011 |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d) |