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- Title
THE PAINTING OF HISTORY: THE PRESENT IN THE PAST OR THE PAST IN THE PRESENT?
- Authors
Ziegler D., María Magdalena
- Abstract
Through the review of the five individual cases of the artists Jacques-Louis David, Benjamin West, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Eugene Delacroix and John Trumbull, it is shown how historical painting since the late XVIIIth Century presents a reinterpretation of the meaning of history and the facts of the past in their respective present. Although history painting is not a new genre at the end of the XVIIIth Century, it did have clear guidelines highly respected in academic circles in the West. The novelty is that a new view of history is approached, in tune with present needs is configured from the paintings. In this sense, assuming each of the artworks analyzed as the solution to a problem, every art work is deciphered as a solvent contribution.
- Publication
Revista de Comunicación de la SEECI, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 41, p45
- ISSN
2695-5156
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.15198/seeci.2016.41.45-65