Anne-louis girodet- trioson burial of atala girodet
Full Artwork Details ; Title: Burial of Atala ; Artist/Maker: After Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, - ) ; Date: after
The Burial of Atala or The Funeral of Atala is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.!
The Burial of Atala
Painting by Anne-Louis Girodet
The Burial of Atala or The Funeral of Atala (French: Atala au tombeau) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.[1] It depicts a scene from Francois-René de Chateaubriand's novel, Atala, written in [2] Inspired by this tragic love story, Girodet captures its dramatic tone by combining both Neoclassical and Romantic elements while emphasizing the sensuality of Atala’s death.
First publicly displayed in the Salon of , the painting was well received.[3] It was then acquired by Louis XVIII in [3] Today, it is held in the Louvre Museum in Paris.[3]
Context
Reacting against the secularism of the French Revolution, both Chateaubriand and Girodet contributed to the revival of Christianity, incorporating religious motifs and iconography into their works.[4][5]
Chateaubriand’s Atala was part of a larger