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In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth. Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gerard, Ingres, and Delacroix and sculptors such as Houdon and Pajou, David to Delacroix reveals how these artists offered innovative reinterpretations of myth while incorporating contemporaneo

Mythology, Classical, in art. --- Romanticism in art --- Psychology and art --- Art, French --- Art, Modern --- French art --- Ecole de Nice (Group of artists) --- Forces nouvelles (Group of artists) --- Nabis (Group of artists) --- Ne pas plier (Group of artists) --- Art and psychology --- Art --- Romanticism (Art) --- Idealism in art --- Naturalism in art --- Realism in art --- Themes, motives. --- mythologie --- romantiek --- psychologie --- Cupido, Amor (Eros) --- thanatos --- vrouw --- krankzinnigheid --- Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis --- Gros, Antoine-Jean --- Delacroix, Eugène --- Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique --- 18de eeuw --- 19de eeuw --- Frankrijk --- mythologie. --- romantiek. --- psychologie. --- Cupido, Amor (Eros). --- thanatos. --- vrouw. --- krankzinnigheid. --- Girodet-Trioson, Anne Louis. --- Gros, Antoine Jean. --- Delacroix, Eugène. --- Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique. --- 18de eeuw. --- 19de eeuw. --- Frankrijk. --- (verhaal van) Cupido, Amor (Eros) --- Girodet-Trioson, Anne Louis --- Gros, Antoine Jean