Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution

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David Gilks (Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia)

Quatremère de Quincy

Art and Politics during the French Revolution

David Gilks (Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia)

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Oxford University Press
31 May 2024

History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Architecture; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; French Revolution

Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution is a thoroughly researched and richly detailed contextual study of the most eventful period in Quatremère's life, but it also offers an original and unfamiliar history of the French Revolution.

By: David Gilks (Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9780198745563
ISBN 10: 0198745567
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abbreviations Preface and acknowledgements 1: The making of a missionary of antiquity, 1755-85 2: The friend of the arts, 1785-89 3: The friend of the arts, 1785-89 4: The nation's temple, 1791 5: Devoted to the King, 1791-92 6: Republicanising the Pantheon, 1792-94 7: Standing for the counter-revolution, 1794-96 8: Justice to the Papacy, 1796 9: The mask of constitutionalism, 1796-1799 Conclusion

David Gilks was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then won a Henry Fellowship to Harvard. After returning to Cambridge for his doctoral thesis, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University London. He is currently Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. His research has been published in The Historical Journal, French Historical Studies and Urban History and he is the first English-language translator of Quatremère de Quincy's Letters on the Plan to Abduct Monuments of Art from Italy.