FRENCH PAINTING 1100-1830

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The extraordinary light and realism in the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme such as his Prayer in Cairo and Prayer at the Sultan's Room, the blues inside the mosque and exquisite garments captured in his Slave Market and a Bashi-Bazouk, the painting which inspired the film Gladiator or another illusion of reality, The Bullfight, here are portraits of beautiful ladies, the Birth of Venus, Napoleon Bonaparte, compositions of motifs from ancient Roman history, fantasy architecture such as Hubert Robert's unreal vision of Egypt, self portraits of artists, noblemen, girls and boys, beautiful women, still life, homage to the pleasures of seduction and debauchery, idealised nature, religious scenes, one of which is particularly striking being two angels presenting the holy face still blood stained, or the remarkable blind hurdy-gurdy player by Georges de la Tour. Between popular masterpieces and rather little known artists, this book unfolds nine centuries of the history of French painting. It contains more than 450 works showing medieval frescoes, Gothic illuminations, Renaissance portraits, the Caravaggists, Baroque, Classicism, the 18th century, neoclassical or romantic paintings, and also works of academic art with mythological motifs. Cabanel or Gerome have their place here, just like Nicolas Poussin, Boucher, Ingrès and Delacroix. 504 pages. 28 x 31cm, 11¼" x 12½". 450 colour illus. Multi language edition, new from Könemann.

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