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How social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century EuropeAs the French Empire collapsed between 1812 and 1815, artists throughout Europe were left uncertain and adrift. The final abdication of Emperor Napoleon, clearing the way for a restored monarchy, profoundly unsettled prevailing national, religious, and social boundaries. In Restoration, Thomas Crow combines a sweeping view of European art centers-Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Brussels, and Vienna-with a close-up look at pivotal artists, including Antonio Canova, Jacques-Louis David, Théodore Géricault, Francisco Goya, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Lawrence, and forgotten but meteoric painters François-Joseph Navez and Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas. Whether directly or indirectly, all were joined in a newly international network, from which changing artistic priorities and possibilities emerged out of the ruins of the old.Crow examines how artists of this period faced dramatic circumstances, from political condemnation and difficult diplomatic missions to a catastrophic episode of climate change. Navigating ever-changing pressures, they invented creative ways of incorporating critical events and significant historical actors into fresh artistic works. Crow discusses, among many topics, David's art and influence during exile, Géricault's odyssey through outcast Rome, Ingres's drive to reconcile religious art with contemporary mentalities, the titled victors over Napoleon all sitting for portraits by Lawrence, and the campaign to restore art objects expropriated by the French from Italy, prefiguring the restitution controversies of our own time.Restoration explores how cataclysmic social and political transformations in nineteenth-century Europe reshaped artists' lives and careers with far-reaching consequences.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCPlease note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Art and society --- Art, European --- Art, Modern --- Neoclassicism (Art) --- History --- Abdication. --- Ancient art. --- Anti-Catholicism. --- Antoine-Jean Gros. --- Antonio Canova. --- Apelles. --- Barberini family. --- Battle of Eylau. --- Battle of the Pyramids. --- Belvedere Torso. --- Bonaparte Crossing the Alps. --- Bourbon Restoration. --- Bradamante. --- Campaspe. --- Cardinal Mazarin. --- Chivalric romance. --- Chivalry. --- Clytemnestra. --- Francisco Goya. --- Hellenistic period. --- High Renaissance. --- His Family. --- Horse and Rider (Leonardo da Vinci). --- House of Bonaparte. --- House of Bourbon. --- Hubert Robert. --- Inception. --- J. M. W. Turner. --- Jacques-Louis David. --- Jean Racine. --- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. --- Joachim Murat. --- Johann Friedrich Overbeck. --- John Flaxman. --- Joseph Bonaparte. --- Louis Philippe I. --- Louis XVIII of France. --- Majesty. --- Monti (rione of Rome). --- Mourning. --- Museo del Prado. --- Museo di Roma. --- Napoleon. --- Narrative. --- On the Eve. --- Papal States. --- Peninsular War. --- Peter von Cornelius. --- Philipp Veit. --- Piazza del Popolo. --- Picturesque. --- Pietro da Cortona. --- Pontiff. --- Pope Pius VII. --- Private collection. --- Ridicule. --- Ruggiero (character). --- Rump state. --- Saint Veronica. --- Ship of State. --- Sistine Chapel. --- Spanish Steps. --- The Artist at Work. --- The Intervention of the Sabine Women. --- The Raft of the Medusa. --- The Rape of the Sabine Women. --- The Third of May 1808. --- The Wounded Cuirassier. --- Warfare. --- Waterloo Campaign. --- Canova, Antonio, --- David, Jacques Louis,