David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art

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David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art

Language: English

Pages: 368

ISBN: 1594037213

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works—from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica—histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, or what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have studied them for decades often miss the big picture by viewing them in isolation from a larger story of human striving.

David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them. Fusing political and art history with a judicious dose of creative reconstruction, Victoria Coates has crafted a lively narrative around each artistic object and the free system that inspired it.

This book integrates the themes of creative excellence and political freedom to bring a fresh, new perspective to both. In telling the stories of ten masterpieces, David’s Sling invites reflection on the synergy between liberty and human achievement.

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Sisters, local townsfolk, even birds on his windowsill. Don José also taught his son about Spain’s proud history of artistic greatness, first from prints and books. When they visited Madrid’s Museo del Prado in 1895, after Conchita’s death, Pablo had the opportunity to study paintings by the Spanish masters in person. Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656. At the Prado, he could see the greatest work of Diego Velázquez, court painter to King Philip IV in the seventeenth century. Known as Las.

Fell, The Magic of Monet’s Garden: His Planting Plans and Color Harmonies (Firefly Books, 2007); and Michel Hoog, The Nymphéas of Claude Monet at the Musée de l’Orangerie, trans. Jean-Marie Clarke (Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987). Picasso and Spain The breakdown of the Spanish Republic is well documented in Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 (Penguin, 2006); Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge, rev. ed. (Norton, 2007); and.

Bridgeman Images. CHAPTER 6 The Death of Marat, 1793 (oil on canvas), Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) / Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium / Bridgeman Images. Queen Marie Antoinette on the way to her execution, 1793 (litho), Jacques Louis David (1748–1825) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images. Exhibition in the Salon of the Louvre in 1787, Pietro Antonio Martini (1738–1797) / Hamburger Kunsthalle / Foto Marburg / Art Resource, NY. The Death of Socrates, 1787 (oil.

Nathaniel, 200–1 West Lander, Eliza, 201 Whistler, James McNeil, 233n11233n11 Whittredge, Worthington, 195–96, 198, 216 Wilhelm II, kaiser, 224, 253 William I, prince of Orange, 114–16, 173 William III, prince of Orange, 173 Wilson, Woodrow, 249–50 Wolfe, James, 200–1 Women in the Garden (Monet), 231, 237, 251 Wordsworth, William, 49, 187 World War I, 262, 277; and Monet, 225–29, 247–51; and Treaty of Versailles, 249–50 World War II, 189, 253, 271–72 Wren, Christopher, 179 Xerxes,.

The Capitoline Hill before Michelangelo’s restoration, c. 1500. The Capitoline Hill after Michelangelo’s restoration in 1536–46. Étienne Dupérac after Michelangelo, piazza on the Capitoline Hill, 1568. Arial view of the Capitoline Hill after Michelangelo’s restoration. The heavy construction work unearthed an abundance of ancient artifacts, some of which found their way into the collection of their rightful owner, the pope, while many items were offered on the open market. The antiquities.

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