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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Art and the Writing of History
2. The Gothic Drama of the Middle Ages: Reims and Strasbourg Cathedrals
3. The Unfinished Renaissance: Van Eyck, Rubens, Dürer
4. Civil War in the Century of Woman: Fontainebleau, Goujon, Pilon
5. Nation and the People: G.ricault
Conclusion: The Artist as Historian: Rembrandt
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“‘History can be an aliment only when it is full as an egg,’ according to Roland Barthes’s assessment of the romantic histories of the great nineteenth-century writer Jules Michelet. Michèle Hannoosh, in her own intellectual biography of the historian, picks up a crucial ingredient of this egg that Barthes had introduced but almost put aside: Michelet’s deep indebtedness to different periods and types of visual art. Hannoosh’s book remedies this ‘lack’ by offering us a most insightful, intelligent, and imaginative account of how dependent, in many ways, his historical vision was to works of art.”
—Michael Ann Holly, author of The Melancholy Art
