Author: Ribner, Jonathan P.
Title: Broken Tablets : The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, 1993. orig.cloth. 27x18cm, xxiii,(8),222p, Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.. 8pp photoplates.. Minor rubbing. VG. In a torn dustwrapper. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Revolutionary Cult of Law; Legislative Imagery under Napoleon; Legislative Imagery under the Bourbon Restoration; Law and Disorder under Louis-Philippe; The Swansong of Legislation: The Palais- Bourbon Library; The Romantic Moses; Epilogue: Twiling of the Rights of Man.

Keywords: French Legal History, Art, Modern France, Law, Iconography, Painting, Iconographic, ,