Reckoning with Millet's "Man with a Hoe," 1863-1900 hawke By examining a wide range

By examining a wide range of artistic productions—ship design

from the Capitoline Museums in Rome to Munich’s Alte Pinakothek

The buildings are as much beacons of brilliance from the exterior as they are temples to clarity and purpose inside

It next examines the responses of the Augustan poets to the decorative program of this monument that was intimately connected with their own literary aspirations

allegorical depictions of death

Reckoning with Millet's "Man with a Hoe," 1863-1900 hawke By examining a wide rangeEdited by Scott Allan, with contributions by Simon Kelly and John Ott A revelatory exploration of one of Jean Franois Millets most contentious paintings. A monumentalizing portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil, Man with a Hoe (186062) by Jean Franois Millet (18141875) is arguably the most art historically significant painting in the J. Paul Getty Museums collection of nineteenth century European art. This volume situates the work in the arc