This essay explores an impulse to visualize history in eighteenth-century France. It focuses on massive compilations of printed images that assembled overviews of history as represented by artifacts, portraits, and events and compares that documentary mode of visualizing the past to imaginary reconstructions of historical events in illusionistic scenes as depicted in the radically different formats of book illustration and monumental history painting.

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可视化18世纪法国的历史

本文探讨了将十八世纪法国的历史形象化的冲动。它着重于大量印刷图像的汇编，这些汇编汇编了由文物，肖像和事件代表的历史概述，并将视觉化过去的文献记录模式与幻觉场景中历史事件的虚构重构进行了比较，如书籍插图的根本不同形式所示和不朽的历史绘画。