Madame Tussaud (ePub)
Her Life and Legacy
(Sprache: Englisch)
A "meticulously researched and deftly written biography" of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review).
Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she...
Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she...
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A "meticulously researched and deftly written biography" of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review).
Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon-people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years.
This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud's early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person's head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history's bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon-people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years.
This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud's early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person's head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history's bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
Autoren-Porträt von Geri Walton
Geri Walton has long been fascinated by people from history and curious about what they did and why. This interest encouraged her to receive a BA in history from San Jose State University, where she graduated summa cum laude. She is particularly interested in European history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Geri Walton
- 2020, 240 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: PEN & SWORD BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1526734095
- ISBN-13: 9781526734099
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2020
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- Größe: 12 MB
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