Portraiture, revolutionary, identity and subjucation: Anne-Louis Girodet’s citizen Belley
During the French Revolution, portraiture played an important role in the forging of identities for the new ruling class. In my thesis I will examine a portrait painted in 1797by Anne-Louis Girodet of Jean-Baptiste Belley, a black who held a position as deputy to the French National Assembly forth c...
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| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1786 |