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The French Revolution a. .has been added to your Cart. William L. Pressly is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of The Life and Art of James Barry (1981).

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William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings .

William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution.

Pressly relates the paintings to Zoffany's status as a German-born .

Pressly relates the paintings to Zoffany's status as a German-born Catholic living in Protestant England and to Zoffany's vision of revolutionary justice and the role played by the sansculottes, women, and blacks. William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution.

Pressly, William Laurens. The French Revolution as Blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's Paintings of the Massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792. London: University of California Press, 1999. Eloges historiques précédés de l'éloge de l'auteur, par M. Flourens. French Drama of the Revolutionary Years.

The paintings depict the events of August 10, 1792 . Additional background on these two paintings can be found in William L. Pressly's The French Revolution as Blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's Paintings of the Massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792. k views · View 5 Upvoters.

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William L. Pressly is a Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author The French Revolution as Blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's Paintings of the Massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 (1999) and two books on James Barry, The Life and Art of James Barry (1981) and James Barry: the Artist as Hero (1983). He also compiled the critical Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Library: "As Imagination Bodies Forth" (1993).

The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1593) and a Restoration drama by Nathaniel Lee (1689), the latter chiefly remembered for a song by Henry Purcell

The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1593) and a Restoration drama by Nathaniel Lee (1689), the latter chiefly remembered for a song by Henry Purcell. Both concern the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which took place in Paris in 1572, and the part played by the Duc de Guise in those events. The Lord Strange's Men acted a play titled The Tragedy of the Guise, thought to be Marlowe's play, on 26 January 1593