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War languages War and women in French and Spanish Painting

War languages War and women in French and Spanish Painting. Vesa Matteo Piludu. University of Helsinki Department of Art Research. Claude Deruet, c. 1643 Madame de Saint-Baslemont de Neuville . woman warrior who actively defended her  manor during the Thirty Year War Athena (palm and laurel)

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War languages War and women in French and Spanish Painting

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  1. War languagesWar and women in French and Spanish Painting Vesa Matteo Piludu University of Helsinki Department of Art Research

  2. Claude Deruet, c. 1643Madame de Saint-Baslemont de Neuville • woman warrior who actively defended her  manor during the Thirty Year War • Athena (palm and laurel) • topography • angel (trumpet, stendards) • putti (laurel, flowers, book-music-poetry)

  3. Class, possession, role, clothes: the masculine power’s symbols occulted the signifiers of femininity Madame de Saint-Baslemont de Neuville

  4. David, Napoleon at St. Bernard, 1800

  5. Class Weapons: rocks, burning brands Helpless male enemies Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier, 1871"Jeanne Hachette at the Siege of Beauvais in 1472"

  6. Jeanne Hachette • Temporary warriors • Husband’s cowardice • Roucher’s epic Le Mois: ”Be men for them… if they are women for you” • Women are more militant than the men • Exemplum virtutis, model for men and women • Moral vervor, patriotic emotion

  7. VITAL-DUBRAY 1851Beauvais (Oise, France) Statue de Jeanne Hachette

  8. Goya, c. 1810. ”They are acting like wild beast” • Absence of war propaganda • Negative vision of the women warriors … and of war in general • The women are forced by war to behave ”like wild beasts” • They behave like something other than women: men or animals

  9. Goya, Disasters of war

  10. Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading People, 1830

  11. Venus of Melos

  12. Liberty • Liberty is a bellicose leader not a peacemaker • Is an allegory, not an historical figure • Dramatic energy, convinction • Leading a mixed group of males • Ambiguity • Semi-nudity of classical sculture and rought proletarian cloth of the working class • Is idealized, but at the same time concrete and sensual • Prototipal women-warrior in the history of art

  13. Liberty and sensuality • Domesticity is irrilevant for Delacroix: a dandy • Liberty has the same sensual vividness of other paintings

  14. Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1827)

  15. Honore Daumier: the repubblic, 1848

  16. Jacques-Louis David: The Oath of the Horatii 1784 Horatii and Curatii

  17. Jacques-Louis David: The Sabine Women:Tatius, Hersilia, Romolus

  18. Jacques-Louis David:Belisarius, 1781 and St. Roch and the Virgin, 1780

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