“The Long Nineteenth Century” (1789-1914) began with the French Revolution and ended with the greatest war known to mankind till that very moment, WWI. These two seminal events frame a turbulent century with immense political, social, cultural and ideological changes. This course addresses the complexity of these changes: the promotion of an enlightened struggle for freedom on the one hand, and developments of murderous terror and modern warfare on the other—as they are reflected in works of art of the period. We will examine the ways that representations of revolutions, wars and catastrophes allowed artists to fashion an image of the modern man as a struggling and suffering hero, as well as an image of the social-political body within which he operates. Within this perspective, we will survey the many stylistic changes that took place throughout this century—neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and more. In this class students will learn to identify and describe works of art, analyzing them by making self-conscious use of sources, both visual and textual.