{"id":5261,"date":"2015-07-28T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?post_type=profile&p=5261"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:25:45","slug":"jonathan-ribner","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/profile\/jonathan-ribner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan P. Ribner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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A specialist in European painting and sculpture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Professor Ribner has published on the art of France and Britain in relation to politics, literature, religion, law, public health, science, and the environment. He is the author of Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics<\/em> (Routledge, 2022) and Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix<\/em> (University of California Press, 1993). His articles have appeared in Studies in Romanticism, The British Art Journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Art Journal, Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Kunstgeschichte<\/em>, and The Art Bulletin<\/em>. He reviews books and exhibitions for<\/span>\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Nineteenth-Century French Studies<\/span><\/em>, and\u00a0<\/span>The Burlington Magazine.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nLoss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics<\/em><\/strong>, New York and London: Routledge, 2022. read here<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Louis<\/td>\nReview of Louis Janmot: Le Po\u00e8me de l\u2019\u00e2me<\/i>(<\/span>Louis Janmot: The Poem of the Soul<\/i>), <\/span><\/em><\/strong>by Servane Dargnies-de Vitry and St\u00e9phane Paccoud, with contributions by Isabelle Saint-Martin, Elena Marchetti, and Cl\u00e9ment Paradis, exh. cat. Paris: Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, in association with In Fine \u00e9ditions d\u2019art, 2023, read here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"The<\/td>\nReview of\u00a0The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870-1905: Modernity and Continuity, <\/i><\/em><\/strong>by Richard Thomson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021, read here <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Review of\u00a0Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>by Nina L\u00fcbbren, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023,\u00a0read here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nReview of\u00a0Courbet\u2019s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting<\/i>, <\/span><\/em><\/strong>by Paul Galvez, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. read here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nReview of\u00a0<\/span>Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern<\/i><\/strong>, edited by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain. Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute, in association with Yale University Press, 2022,\u00a0<\/span>Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide<\/i> 21, no. 3 (Autumn 2022) read here<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nReview of: S\u00e9bastien Allard and C\u00f4me Fabre, Delacroix. <\/strong><\/em><\/em>New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. caa.reviews, 2019\u00a0 <\/em><\/em>read here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n“Resistance and Persistence: On the Fortunes and Reciprocal International Influences of French Romanticism.\u201d<\/strong>
\nStudies in Romanticism<\/em> 57, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 505-38. available here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cJohn Ruskin, Philip Henry Gosse, William Dyce, and the Contemplation of Time at Mid-Century.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe British Art Journal<\/em> 18, no. 3 (Winter 2017\/2018): 70-77. available here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cThe Spectre of Invasion, from the French Revolution to the Channel Tunnel.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe British Art Journal<\/em> 18, no. 1 (2017): 3-11. avaiilable here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cL\u2019Ann\u00e9e terrible Viewed by John Tenniel.\u201d<\/strong>
\nNineteenth-Century Art Worldwide<\/em> 15, no. 1 (Spring 2016). read here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cThe London Sublime\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>The British Art Journal<\/em> 16, no. 2 (Autumn 2015): 76-88. available here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cOn a Repainting by Millet.”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Nineteenth-<\/i>Century <\/i>Art Worldwide <\/i>13, no.1 (Spring 2014). read here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cJohn Martin\u2019s Twin Pursuits.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The\u00a0British\u00a0Art\u00a0Journal\u00a0<\/i>11,\u00a0no.\u00a02\u00a0(2010\/11):\u00a0<\/span>36-42. available here<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cThe Thames and Sin in the Age of the Great Stink: Some Artistic and Literary Responses to a Victorian Environmental Crisis.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The British Art Journal<\/em> 1, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 38-46. available here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u201cThe Poetics of Pollution.\u201d<\/strong> In TurnerWhistlerMonet<\/em>, edited by Katharine Lochnan, John House, and Sylvie Patin, 51-63, with catalog entry on p. 112. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, London: Tate Britain, and Paris: R\u00e9union des mus\u00e9es nationaux\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, 2004.<\/span> listed here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nBroken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix. <\/i><\/strong><\/span>Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.<\/span> available here<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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