Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • analyse paintings centred on the human figure in terms of how a work's form and content together produce its meaning
  • explain how and why French painting came to be used and controlled by the Napoleonic regime
  • discuss the problems of interpretation raised by Gros's Napoleonic paintings
  • locate Napoleonic painting within the broad shift from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in French art.