History 111 - MODERN EUROPE

Selected Images from Lecture

Old Regime to the 1830s

Ideals of Civic Virtue at the End of the Old Regime

Jacques-Louis David. "The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons" (1789)
 
 

A Martyr of the French Revolution

David. "Death of Marat" (1793)
 
 

Napoleon the Hero

David. "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" (1801-2)
 
 

Napoleon the Law Giver

David. "Napoleon in His Study" (1812)
 
 

Spain Rises Up Against Napoleon's Armies

Francisco Goya.  "May Second, 1808"
 

Francisco Goya.  "May Third, 1808"
 
 

The End of Enlightenment?

Francisco Goya.  "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"
 

Romanticism. Nature... and Another Army Crossing the Alps

J.M.W. Turner. "Snowtorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps" (1812, Royal Academy)
 

A Vision of Atrocity

Delacroix. "Scenes from the Massacres at Chios; Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery, etc. -- See Various Accounts and Contemporary Newspapers" (1824)
 

The Atlantic Slave Trade

August-François Biard, "The Slave Trade" (1840)
 

Colonialism. The Exotic Orient

Eugène Delacroix. "Algerian Women in Their Apartments" (1834) Louvre
 

The Revolution of 1830 in France

Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People"