{"product_id":"9781844134076","title":"The Judgement of Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: King, Ross\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781844134076\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jul 2007\u003cbr\u003ePages: 464 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eBrunelleschi's Dome\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMichelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling\u003c\/i\u003e paints a dazzling portrait of late-nineteenth century France and of the painters who were emblematic of the struggle between old and new - a struggle which resulted in the birth of Impressionism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking \u003ci\u003eDejeuner Sur L'Herbe\u003c\/i\u003e and ending in 1974 with the first 'Impressionist' exhibition, Ross King plunges into Parisian life during a ten-year period full of social and political ferment with his usual narrative brillliance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese were the years in which Napoleon III's autocratic and pleasure-seeking Second Empire fell from its heights into the ignominy of the Franco-Prussian war and the ensuing Paris Commune of 1871. But it was also a period in which a group of artists, with Manet in the vanguard began to challenge the establishment by turning to the landscapes and ordinary people they saw around them. The struggle between Meissonier and Manet to get their paintings exhibited in pride of place at the Salon was not just about art, it was about how to see the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46295046979742,"sku":"UBD-9781844134076","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781844134076.jpg?v=1765944646","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781844134076","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}