Art in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars

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Art in Europe During the Napoleonic Wars Art in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars

A majority of the artwork created during this era was based upon Napoleon. The pictures and sculptures created depicted Napoleon at many of his great battles and his army or pictures of him throughout France,especially in his palace.

But not all of the art of this time was based upon Napoleon. Some of the artwork came from different points of views other than french artists. Many of the works created during this time showed what Napoleon and his troops were diong to the people of other countries.0 One of the great artists who depicted this cruelty was Francisco de Goya of Spain. His painting, Third Of May, shows what Napoleon's soldiers did to the people of Spain during the 5-year period they were there.

Artwork

The artwork shown shows the different styles of art during this time as well as the different perspectives of each artist.

Unknown: Name:
Napoleon Enthroned: Description:
Depiction of the enthronement of Napoleon Bonaparte.: Made:
December 2,1804

Unknown: Name:
Addressing the Troops in Spain: Description:
Napoleon explains the situation in Spain: Made:
1808

Jacques Louis David: Name:
Bonaparte Crossing the Great Saint Bernard's Pass: Description:
Napoleon crossing the Great Saint Bernard's Pass on horseback (When this picture was painted, Napoleon was actually riding a mule, but the artist decided to make it a horse so Napoleon looked more galiant): Made:
1800

Jacques Louis David: Name:
Napoleon in his Study: Description:
A portrait of Napoleon: Made:
1812 Artist: Francisco de Goya Name: Third Of May Description: French soldiers holding up a group of spanish peasants in the streets of Spain Made: 1808 Artist: Francisco de Goya Name: Prison Interior Description: Image of a french prison during the 5 years of guerilla warfare in Spain Made: 1816 Biographies of the Artists Jacques Louis David David was born into a middle-class family in Paris on August 30, 1748, and studied at the Académie Royale under the rococo painter J. M. Vien. He won the Prix de Rome in 1774, and on the trip to Italy he was strongly influenced by classical art and by the inspiring work of the 17th-century painter Nicolas Poussin. David evolved his own individual neoclassical style, drawing subject matter from ancient sources and basing form and gesture on Roman sculpture. His famous Oath of the Horatii (1784-1785) was intended as a showing of the new neoclassical style in which dramatic lighting, ideal forms, and gestural clarity are emphasized. After 1789, David adopted a more realistic than neoclassical style in order to record scenes of the French Revolution (1789-1799), as in the Death of Marat (1793). From 1799 to 1815 he was Napoleon's official painter, chronicling the reign of Napoleon I in works such as Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine (1805-1807). Following Napoleon's downfall, David was exiled to Brussel, where he stayed until his death. Francisco de Goya Innovative Spanish painter and etcher; one of the triumvirate-including El Greco and Diego Velázquez-of great Spanish artists. Much of Goya work is derived from Velázquez, just as much as the art of the 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso is taken from Goya. Trained in a mediocre rococo artistic milieu, Goya transformed this often frivolous style and created works, such as the famous Third of May, 1808 (1814), that have as great an impact today as when they were created. Websites used for this site: www.napoleonguide.com www.napoleon-art.com www.artcyclopedia.com www.artchives.com