Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880
Subtitle: Third Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 25, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780300053210
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Europe; History - General; Art / History / General; European; Sculpture; Techniques - Painting; 19th century; Art, Modern; History; Neoclassicism (Art)
Description: From the Classicism of Jacques-Louis David to the Realism of Courbet and the Early Impressionism of Renoir, the former Director of the Osterreichische Galerie at Vienna outlines the course taken by painting and sculpture on the continent of Europe during the nineteenth century. Faced with the untidy sprawl of individualism which followed the French Revolution and threw up isolated geniuses like Goya, Fritz Novotny nevertheless succeeds in charting the currents in what was predominantly a century of Naturalism and also - while artists were increasingly preoccupied with the 'inner man' - of great landscape painting when Freidrich, Corot, and the Impressionists proper added light and atmosphere to the former achievements of the great Dutch masters.--Back cover.