Description SUMMARY: Liberty Leading the People : a painting long accepted as an iconic image of the triumphant French Republic. This was never Delacroix's intention however; he essentially backed the Establishment, and mob violence terrified him. Is the painting's popularity based on a total misunderstanding? FULL MOVIE goo.gl DVD: goo.gl (soon in English, sorry!) CHAPTERS (Act I) [00:00] Introduction [01:12] Act I: Who got it wrong? Part IA: the viewer's mistake? [04:37] Part IB: a goddess in paris [07:12] Part IC: democracy- the ugly side? ARTWORKS Amédée Bourgeois - The Attack on the Hôtel de Ville, 28 July 1830 (1831) -- Versailles Alfred Le Petit - The Two Republics (1873) Géricault - Scene of Cannibalism on the Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre Daumier - A Literary Discussion in the Second Gallery (1864) Géricault - Study of Human Members (1819) - Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts Henry Scheffer - Joan of Arc entering Orleans (1843) -- Versailles Delacroix - The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) - Louvre Agasias of Ephesus - The Borghese Gladiator (circa 100 BC) - Louvre N. de la Courteille - Truth brings the Republic and Prosperity (1793) - Vizille, Musée de la Révolution Gros - Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole (1796) -- Versailles Gros - The Battle of Eylau (1808) - Louvre Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville (1850) -- Versailles Guillon-Lethière - Enrolling the Volunteers (1799) - Vizille, Musée de la Révolution <b>...</b>
