David to Delacroix

“This book is well-written and sheds new light on the subject of mythology in French Romantic art.” — Art-Libraries Society of North America

“A superb contribution. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” — CHOICE

“A stimulating and enjoyable experience.” — European Review of History

“Delivers a persuasive invitation to scholars to revisit late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century mythological art, a corpus of material too often neglected.” — Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

“This well-written book of outstanding scholarship will be a major contribution to early modern art history and of deep interest to a wide variety of historians and humanists. It is deeply researched, profoundly well considered, and cogently argued.” — Christopher M. S. Johns, Vanderbilt University

“This impressively documented, interdisciplinary work will be an invaluable introduction to late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century art. Dorothy Johnson explains with eloquence, insight, and lucidity why mythological art was placed at the top of the genre hierarchy, and she sets its aesthetic and intellectual achievements into the context of the natural sciences and psychology as well as literature, archaeology, and historiography.” — Beth S. Wright, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix