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Series
SoloTechnical details
64 pages, paperback with flaps, 14 x 21.5 cm, 42 color and black-and-white illustrations.
Publication date
1998Period
19th centuryISBN French978-2-71183-717-5
French only
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Co-publisher(s)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
The Death of Sardanapalus: a masterpiece of the Louvre, one of the founding works of romanticism, a scandal at the Salon of 1827-1828. This troubling, erotic and violent painting depicts the end of a famous tyrant, who was sensualist yet courageous. A legendary work of art.