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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...
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Beyond Marat: Lesser-Known Romantic Paintings and the Trauma of the French Revolution

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 Author - Brian Hawkeswood . In the shadow of Jacques-Louis David’s Death of Marat , one of the most iconic and politically charged paintings of the French Revolution , lies a quieter but equally resonant body of work that speaks to the psychological and emotional aftermath of a society in upheaval. These lesser-known paintings—created during and shortly after the revolution by artists who were either aligned with or surviving its consequences—reveal a parallel history, one shaped not by revolutionary heroism or classical allegory, but by ambiguity, loss, exile, and introspection. While Romanticism is often understood in terms of its passion, individualism, and sublime landscapes, in France its early emergence was forged in the crucible of revolutionary trauma.                                 Anne-Louis Girodet , The Shadows of French Heroes Who Died for Liberty (1802) This essay considers five such w...
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