"Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution of 1848' is painted on a canvas ten feet high by twenty feet long. It contains two hundred and fifty figures - many of ...

This 1789 painting by Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754-1820) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is a case in point. Needless to say, 1789 was a big year in France.

Liberty Leading the People is from the French Revolution depicting the uprising of the common people or the bourgeois standing up for their rights. The RIT students obtained props and period clothing ...

Jacques Louis David’s ‘Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze)’ is a tense painting created just before the chemist was guillotined.

The painting The Thirteenth Vendemiaire, October 5, 1795 depicts a key battle during the French Revolution. | The Print Collector/Getty Images ...

Delacroix painted the artwork to commemorate France's July Revolution of 1830. He depicted a woman personifying Liberty brandishing the French flag and leading armed men over the bodies of the fallen.

This painting in the National Gallery of Art, “Portrait of a Young Woman in White,” depicts one of them. It’s by an unknown French painter thought to have been in the circle of Jacques-Louis ...

The discovery of the plates shed light on the role of fashion in the French Revolution, ... Higonnet applied to some art history Ph.D. programs “as a backup,” and wound up at Yale.

A world-famous painting of a bare-chested woman leading French revolutionaries is this week to reveal its true colours after restorers cleansed it from decades of varnish and grime.