Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

GIRODET-TRIOSON Another of David’s students,Anne-Louis Girodet- Trioson(1767–1824), also produced paintings that conjured images ...

lived, however, as he soon broke with David on matters of style. This difference of opinion involved Ingres’s embrace of what he ...

Romanticism Whereas Neoclassicism’s rationality reinforced Enlightenment thought (see Chapter 29), particularly Voltaire’s views ...

the sublime was the taste for the fantastic, the occult, and the macabre—for the adventures of the soul voyaging into the danger ...

Spain and France From its roots in the work of Fuseli, Blake, and other late-18th- century artists, Romanticism gradually displa ...

30-12Francisco Goya, Family of Charles IV,1800. Oil on canvas, 9 2  11 . Museo del Prado, Madrid. Goya painted the family of ...

depicted the bloody bodies of others already lying dead on the ground. Still others have been herded together to be shot in a fe ...

antipathy to slavery, it is appropriate that Géricault placed Jean Charles, a black soldier and one of the few survivors, at the ...

790 Chapter 30 EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1800 TO 1870 T he appeal of Romanticism, with its emphasis on freedom and feeling, extended w ...

were products of his view that the artist’s powers of imagination would in turn capture and inflame the viewer’s imagination. Li ...

TIGER HUNT An enormously influential event in Delacroix’s life that affected his art in both subject and form was his visit to N ...

shadings, and reflections, which he tried to re-create in his paintings. He recorded his observations in his journal, which beca ...

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH Among the first Northern European artists to depict the Romantic transcendental landscape was Caspar Davi ...

dustrialization. However, where Constable’s paintings are serene and precisely painted, Turner’s feature turbulent swirls of fro ...

scarlet clouds. The slave ship moves into the distance, leaving in its wake a turbulent sea choked with the bodies of slaves sin ...

breaking through the clouds overhead, which suggests a heavenly consecration of the land. That Bierstadt focused attention on th ...

School painters worked in a time of great upheaval.Twilight in the Wilderness dates to the 1860s, when the Civil War was tearing ...

cluster around the excavated grave site, their faces registering all de- grees of response to the situation. Although the painti ...

figures, seen at eye level in person, blocks any view into deep space. The faces are portraits. Some of the models were Courbet’ ...

Socialism was a growing movement, and both its views on property and its call for social justice, even economic equality, fright ...