Linford, SarahSmyth, CarolynGarelli, Stéphane2024-10-172024-10-172021Garelli, Stéphane. "Jean-Victor Schnetz". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy 2021.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/512Thesis (B.A. in Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2021.Jean-Victor Schnetz was one of the most famous painters of his generation — a liminal figure in the transition between Neo-Classicism and Romanticism, whose legacy remains poorly grasped by academic publications. This biographical monograph has faithfully reconstructed from letters, catalogues, salon exhibitions and critical essays, sources about the Swiss painter’s life. Framed through a corpus of textual evidence, and a catalogue raisoné of the painter’s surviving works, this thesis sheds light on the little studied influence of osteology, textile studies, archeology and literary criticism on the reception of painters in the 19th century. In doing so, this work challenges the existing methodological framework used in contemporary art historical writing by returning the subject to an interpretative model based on a scientific way of understanding painting, linked to a non-exiting demarcation between psychology and physiology. In doing so, it offers a firm handle on iconographical studies, which ultimately frame this thesis’s claims.59 pagesenJean-Victor Schnetz, 1787-1870Thesis