A History of European Art

Alps (1800). The Italian campaign had begun in 1796 and was successful, but in 1799, the French lost Italy. Even so, this painti ...

Lecture 39: Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism the North African mounted troops of Napoleon—in the streets of Madrid. Th ...

During the same period, Goya was felled by an attack of the unknown illness that had deafened him in the 1790s. He survived thro ...

Lecture 39: Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism Saturn Devouring One of his Sons, 181923, oil on plaster, mounted on can ...

Romanticism in the 19th Century ..................................................... Lecture 40 Unlike Neoclassicism, which is ...

Lecture 40: Romanticism in the 19 th Century Note the hip-shot pose and the transported expression on the subject’s face. This p ...

sweeps upward from the dead bodies that anchor it, the father and son at left and the dragging body at right, to the muscular bl ...

Lecture 40: Romanticism in the 19 th Century up toward heaven, the dead mother and her living child, and the nude woman whose bo ...

presents Homer as a virtual deity, enthroned before a Greek temple, while being crowned with a wreath by an angel who may repres ...

Lecture 40: Romanticism in the 19 th Century The “timeless torpor” and natural eroticism of these women, in relaxed poses that a ...

Liberty Leading the People, 1830, oil on canvas, 8’ 6 ¼” x 10’ 8” (260 x 325 cm), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Massacre at Ch ...

Lecture 40: Romanticism in the 19 th Century What are the key elements of Romanticism? Compare Delacroix’s viewpoint on nature ...

Realism—From Daumier to Courbet .............................................. Lecture 41 Honoré Daumier, who was born in 1808 a ...

Lecture 41: Realism—From Daumier to Courbet is cast in a heroic mold by Daumier, the epitome of a man of the people. In Daumier, ...

leaving the poor and lower middle class with no housing. In an 1852 lithograph, Daumier’s apartment dweller literally looks on t ...

Lecture 41: Realism—From Daumier to Courbet pretti¿ ed his subjects and was never sentimental. We see ¿ rst The Sower (c. 1850). ...

In it are the people who thrive on life and those who thrive on death; it is society at its best, its worst, its average.” He co ...

Lecture 41: Realism—From Daumier to Courbet Gustave Courbet: The Artist’s Studio (Interior of My Studio: A Real Allegory of Seve ...

The Third-Class Carriage, c. 186365, oil on canvas, 25 ¾ x 35 ½” (65.4 x 90.2 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cit ...

Lecture 42: Manet and Monet—The Birth of Impressionism Manet and Monet—The Birth of Impressionism ............................. ...