19th century European painting : David to Cézanne / Lorenz Eitner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eitner, Lorenz.

Contributor:

Eitner, Lorenz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, European--19th century.

Painting, European.

Physical Description:

xxi, 746 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

Nineteenth century European painting

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2002.

Summary:

This new revised edition includes new chapters with fifteen new illustrations on four notable women artists -- Angelika Kauffmann, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Berthen Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. This edition also contains further text revisions and updates to the bibliographies. The focus of 19th Century European Painting remains on the important artists and movements of the period with chapters on each artist's life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered and the following artists are discussed as well: David and his followers, Goya, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Millet and the Barbizon painters, Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Cezanne. There are 435 illustrations, suggested readings and references, and an index.

Notes:

"Icon editions."

"Text and plates."

Rev. ed. of: An outline of 19th century European painting. c1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Eitner, Lorenz. Outline of 19th century European painting.

ISBN:

0813365708

0813339626

OCLC:

49225406