Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea | James McNeill Whistler | 1871
Nocturne Blue and Silver - Chelsea | James McNeill Whistler | 1871 James Whistler was born in the US, but developed his all career in the England of the en don the 19th Century. Victorian society...
View ArticleBerry Pomeroy Castle, Devon | Thomas Girtin | 1797
Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon | Thomas Girtin | 1797 Thomas Girtin is generally included in the British romantic landscape artists, next to artists like JMW Turner, John Sell Cotman or James Whistler....
View ArticleThe course of empire: Destruction | Thomas Cole | 1836
The course of empire: Destruction | Thomas Cole | 1836 During the 1800s, in the American intellectual circles, the topic of the “pastoralism” was recurrent. It was like an ideal period in social human...
View ArticleAnatomical pieces | Théodore Géricault | 1818
Anatomical pieces | Théodore Géricault | 1818 In the last post about Géricault, we saw that the artist was commissioned with a series of 10 portraits of patients who were hospitalized in La...
View ArticlePortrait of the Marchesa Casati with peacock pens | Giovanni Boldini | 1914
Giovanni Boldini studied in Florence with the Macchiaioli, a group of artists who were opposed to the teachings of the Italian Accademia as they were too strict. From them, Boldini takes the immediacy...
View ArticleLiberty leading the people | Eugène Delacroix | 1830
Liberty leading the people | Eugène Delacroix | 1830 In the late eighteenth century, France was going through the Age of Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that considered reason as the only...
View ArticleNiagara Falls | Frederic Edwin Church | 1867
Niagara Falls | Frederic Edwin Church | 1867 Church’s talent did not go unnoticed and before he was 30, he already had become a renowned artist. He is recognized today as one of the most important...
View ArticleThe stages of life | Caspar David Friedrich | 1835
The stages of life | Caspar David Friedrich | 1835 Along with other artists such as JMW Turner and Constable in England, the German Caspar David Friedrich is one of the greatest exponents of the...
View ArticleThe Hülsenbeck children | Philipp Otto Runge | 1806
The Hülsenbeck children | Philipp Otto Runge | 1806 For the Romantics of the early nineteenth century, art was not a means to earn a living; through it, they strived to capture the soul of the people...
View ArticleMiss Cazenove on a Gray Hunter | Jacques-Laurent Agasse | Beginning of 19th...
Miss Cazenove on a Gray Hunter | Jacques-Laurent Agasse | Beginning of 19th Century Before his 20th birthday, Jacques-Laurent Agasse moved from Switzerland to France, with the idea of studying animal...
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