A History of European Art

The Thinker, bronze, 79” H (200.66 cm H), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, France. Ugolino and his Children, 1880–87, plaster, 16 ¼” ...

Lecture 48: Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso .............................. L ...

side, the sculpture gives the impression that it is striding with forcefulness; a strong wind has forced back the clothing or co ...

Lecture 48: Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso example, we see The Menaced Assassin (L’assassin menacé) (1926) by René Ma ...

From 1920 onward, Mondrian’s paintings are quite clear in their intention. Further, Mondrian and his friends, who called their m ...

Lecture 48: Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso “personage.” Miró’s metamorphosis of the human form into the grotesque ele ...

the eye to a glaring electric light at the top, in which the light bulb is set in an eye-like oval. Whose eye is this? The eye o ...

Lecture 48: Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, oil on canvas, 57 x 35” (147.3 x ...

Lucie-Smith, Visual Arts in the 20th Century. Selz, Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History, 1890–1980. Of the isms discussed in ...

Timeline Timeline 800................................................... Coronation of Charlemagne (742–814). 840............... ...

1303 í1305/10 ................................. Painting of the 38 frescoes of the Arena Chapel by Giotto di Bondone, precursor ...

Timeline 1430–1432....................................... Donatello models David in Florence, probably commissioned by the Medic ...

1498–1499....................................... Michelangelo designs and carves the Pietà for the tomb of a French cardinal in ...

Timeline 1527................................................. Sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. 1535–1541....... ...

c. 1622í1625................................... Rubens paints the Marie de’Medici cycle. 1624................................... ...

Timeline 1792................................................. French invasion of Austria, launching a series of wars of “libera ...

1848................................................. Failed revolutions across Europe; Louis-Philippe is overthrown. 1852...... ...

Timeline 1906–1907....................................... Beginning of Cubism with Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. c. 1912 ...

Glossary aerial perspective: The effect of deep space in a landscape painting, created by diminution of scale and softened conto ...

Glossary basilica: Any church that has a longitudinal nave, À anked by colonnaded side aisles, terminating in an apse. Originall ...