In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, little to no

This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century thro

The world that shaped Europe's first national sculptor-celebrities, from Schadow to David d'Angers, from Flaxman to Gibson, from Canova to Thorvaldsen, was the

Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France. In 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)

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