Download or read book Jean-Leon Gerome and the Crisis of History Painting in the 1850s written by Gulru Cakmak and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that by the 1850s the historical paintings no longer excited the French public. This provocative study reveals Gérôme, typically dismissed as a conservative painter, as a pioneering innovator who responded swiftly to this crisis in art. In a group of experimental paintings in the late 1850s, he devised a quintessentially modern mode of historical representation.