The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

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Dr Ross King

The Judgement of Paris

The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Dr Ross King

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English

Pimlico
02 July 2007

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Painting & paintings

The acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling paints a dazzling portrait of late-nineteenth century France and of the painters who were emblematic of the struggle between old and new - a struggle which resulted in the birth of Impressionism.

In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris.

Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe and ending in 1974 with the first 'Impressionist' exhibition, Ross King plunges into Parisian life during a ten-year period full of social and political ferment with his usual narrative brillliance.

These were the years in which Napoleon III's autocratic and pleasure-seeking Second Empire fell from its heights into the ignominy of the Franco-Prussian war and the ensuing Paris Commune of 1871. But it was also a period in which a group of artists, with Manet in the vanguard began to challenge the establishment by turning to the landscapes and ordinary people they saw around them. The struggle between Meissonier and Manet to get their paintings exhibited in pride of place at the Salon was not just about art, it was about how to see the world.

By: Dr Ross King
Imprint: Pimlico
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9781844134076
ISBN 10: 1844134075
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 02 July 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ross King is the author of the hugely popular Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, both of which spent many weeks in the New York Times bestseller lists. He is also a novelist and lives near Oxford.

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Ross King is the author of Brunelleschi's Dome, a highly praised account of how the Renaissance architect Brunelleschi constructed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence (voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Independent Booksellers in 2001), as well as Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Leonardo and the Last Supper. He has also written two novels, Domino and Ex Libris. He lives in Oxford.