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Title: Liberator-Hero Analysis: Eulogies and Portraits


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Liberator-Hero AnalysisEulogies and Portraits
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What is a Liberator Hero?
  • Circa 18th-19th c.
  • Usually male
  • Usually with military experience
  • Intended to become a symbol (real or imagined) of
    what the revolution stands for)
  • Reflects standards of the time
  • Portrayed through portraits and eulogies

3
George Washington
  • Gilbert Stuart, one of the most noted
    portraitists of his time.
  • April 12, 1796
  • 8 feet by 5 feet
  • Why didnt Stuart choose to paint Washington in
    uniform?

4
George Washington
  • Facial expression?
  • Clothing? Pose? Books on the floor? Table leg?
    The chair in the background?
  • What is the overall image that Stuart sought to
    convey of Washington? Of the American Revolution?

5
Liberator-Hero
  • Eulogy to George Washington
  • Commissioned by the Massachusetts legislature and
    delivered in Bostons Old South Meeting House by
    Fisher Ames

6
George Washington
  • How does Ames portray Washington?
  • When he spoke of Washington conducting a civil
    war with mildness, and a revolution with order,
    Ames was telling his listeners how HE wanted them
    to think about the nature of the Revolutionwhat
    was that?

7
George Washington
  • To Ames, what was the true glory of the American
    Revolution?
  • Think about how Ames was trying to portray
    Washington as a liberator-hero

8
Jean-Paul Marat
  • Jacques Louis David
  • Frances best known Neoclassical painter and
    supporter of French Revolution
  • Arranged funeral of Marat
  • one of the worlds most skillfully executed
    propaganda pictures

9
Jean-Paul Marat
  • Why did he choose to show Marat this way?
  • Bath water tinted with blood, the bloody wound,
    the knife on the floor, the note of Corday
  • Why did David ignore the truth in his painting?

10
Jean-Paul Marat
  • What image of Marat did David seek to
    communicate?
  • What image of the French Revolution did the
    thousand who viewed the painting receive?
  • Why were reproductions distributed by the
    thousands?

11
Jean-Paul Marat
  • Eulogy delivered to the National Convention by a
    Marat ally, F. E. Guiraut
  • Member of the Paris Jacobin club
  • Most widely circulated

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Jean-Paul Marat
  • How did Guiraut portray Marat as a
    liberator-hero?
  • What did Guiraut want the essence of the French
    Revolution to be?
  • The name of the newspaperLAmi du Peupledoes
    Guiraut play on this title in the eulogy?

13
Toussaint
  • J. Barlow
  • Know nothing about the artist
  • How can we use Barlows portrait to analyze what
    Haitians thought of Toussaint as a
    liberator-hero?

14
Toussaint
  • Can we assume that Barlow painted Toussaint as
    he, himself, wanted to be portrayed?
  • Clothing? Right hand rests on his sword?
    Haitis constitution? Background matter?

15
Toussaint
  • What image of Toussaint Louverture did Barlow
    seek to communicate?
  • What image of the Haitian Revolution?

16
Toussaint Louverture
  • Part of 1814 manifesto written by Henri
    Christophe
  • Rally Haitians to repulse French invasion of the
    island
  • What lessons did Christophe intend that his
    readers learn from the life of Toussaint?

17
Toussaint Louverture
  • What did Christophe think of Toussaints goal to
    have all live in relative equality in Haiti?
  • What does Christophe see as the true meaning of
    the Haitian Revolution?

18
Simon Bolivar
  • Describe what you see in this painting by Jose
    Gil da Castro.
  • Compare this painting to the one of George
    Washington.
  • How do you think Bolivar wanted to be remembered?

19
Simon Bolivar
  • Dr. Calcanos Oration at the reinterment of
    Bolivar (1876)
  • Seeks to establish Bolivars role in Latin
    Americas greatness

20
Simon Bolivar
  • How does Calcano use hyperbole to emphasize
    Bolivars greatness?
  • How does he characterize Bolivar as a
    liberator-hero?

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Conclusions
  • What conclusions can you make about liberator
    heroes?
  • How might you take this information and
    incorporate it within your baking?
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