Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGEDaumier brought the same con- victions exhibited in his graphic work to his paintings as well, espe- cially ...

ROSA BONHEURThe most celebrated woman artist of the 19th century was Marie-Rosalie (Rosa) Bonheur(1822–1899). The winner of the ...

art.Le Déjeuner contains sophisticated references and allusions to many painting genres—history painting, portraiture, pastoral ...

structive to compare Olympia with a work by a highly acclaimed French academic artist of the time,Adolphe-William Bouguereau (18 ...

WINSLOW HOMER Realism re- ceived an especially warm reception in the United States. One of the lead- ing American Realist painte ...

JOHN SINGER SARGENT The expatriate American artist John Singer Sargent(1856–1925), born in Florence, Italy, was a younger contem ...

HENRY OSSAWA TANNER Typical of the Realist painter’s desire to depict the lives of ordinary people is the early work of the Amer ...

Lewis carved while living in Rome, surrounded by examples of both classical and Renaissance art. It represents two freed African ...

women that projected an image of ethereal beauty and melded ap- parent opposites—a Victorian prettiness with sensual allure. His ...

rior of Paris’s Notre-Dame to its Gothic splendor after removing the Baroque and Napoleonic (FIG. 30-2) alterations. HOUSES OF P ...

PARIS OPÉRA The Baroque style also found favor in 19th- century architecture because it was well suited to conveying a grandeur ...

300 feet long—he used an experimental system of glass-and-metal roof construction. Encouraged by the success of this system, Pax ...

814 Chapter 30 EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1800 TO 1870 T he earliest photographic processes were the daguerreotype, named after L.J.M. ...

Photography A technological device of immense consequence for the modern ex- perience was invented shortly before the mid-19th c ...

accomplished painters. The pictures obtained by this method are as remarkable for the perfection of the details as for the richn ...

presence. Even in half-length, his gesture and expression create a mood that seems to reveal much about him. Perhaps Delacroix r ...

could regard this image as simple news reportage, it also functions to impress on people the high price of the Civil War. Corpse ...

ART UNDER NAPOLEON ❚As Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815, Napoleon embraced the Neoclassical style in order to associate h ...

31-1Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel,Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1889. New materials and technologies and the modernist aesthetic fuele ...

T he momentous Western developments of the early 19th century—industrialization, urbanization, and increased economic and politi ...