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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire,during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, such images typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.
History. --- France --- Europe --- History, general. --- History of Modern Europe. --- History of France. --- History—1492-. --- History --- Annals --- Europe-History-1492-. --- France-History. --- Fine arts. --- Civilization-History. --- Fine Arts. --- Cultural History. --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Europe—History—1492-. --- France—History. --- Civilization—History.
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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire,during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, such images typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.
History --- History of France --- History of Europe --- Franse Revolutie --- geschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Europe
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Arts and society. --- Arts, Modern --- Labor in art. --- Work in art. --- Social aspects.
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Iconography --- Thematology --- Heracles [Mythological character] --- Hercules [Mythological character] --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Europe --- receptiegeschiedenis
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Arts and society. --- Arts, Modern --- Arts, Modern --- Labor in art. --- Work in art. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects.
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The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, raising questions about the hero's role as model of the princely ruler, and examining how the worthiness of this exemplary type came, in time, to be subverted. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring of Herakles-Hercules in western culture up to the present day, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero's perennial, but changingly problematic, appeal.
English literature. --- Hercules --- In art. --- In literature.
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Art --- History --- Festschriften --- White, John
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