19th Century European Painting: David to Cezanne (Revised Edition)

By Lorenz Eitner

Book Overview

This new revised edition of an established survey of 19th century European painting from David through Cezanne includes new chapters with fifteen new illustrations on four notable women artists-- Angelika Kauffmann, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Berthe 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 receive substantial monographic treatment: 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..

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813339626
• ISBN13: 9780813339627
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 2.0" x 6.3"