The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...
Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...
The French Revolution was a messy and extra­ordinarily bloody affair but there are very few calls for Bastille Day to be cancelled. Liberty Leading the People, 28 July 1830, by Eugene Delacroix ...