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 		Selected Vincent van Gogh Self-Portraits
During his intense career, Vincent van Gogh painted numerous portraits of himself, leaving behind a visual artistic autobiography.
Paul Gauguin, Charles Giraud and Tahiti
French artists Charles Giraud and Paul Gauguin each visited Tahiti during the 1800s, but during different decades and for very different reasons.
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Spurred on by an 1867 newspaper piece stating that "Negroes" had no artistic talent, the mostly self-taught Edward M. Bannister proved otherwise in his respected career.
Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic
Well-known for his 1875 The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins later painted The Agnew Clinic, another medical portrait which forthrightly depicted the trauma of breast cancer.
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paris
Views of the French capital by Impressionists Caillebotte and Monet and Post-Impressionists Van Gogh and Seurat.
Harvest Scenes in 19th Century Art
Views of harvest-time by artists Camille Pissarro, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
Cleopatra in 19th Century Art
Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, as depicted in works by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Alexandre Cabanel, Gustave Moreau and Jean André Rixens.
Late 19th Century Scenes of Summer
Three paintings by American-born artists Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins captured new views of the Good Old Summertime.
Artist Mary Cassatt in Spain
Best known for her loving scenes of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt also painted an 1873 series of Spanish works that showed an adventurously emerging talent.
Marie Bashkirtseff
Before an untimely death from tuberculosis, Marie Bashkirtseff began a promising art career and kept vast journals detailing her unique perspective and life.
Artist Alfred Sisley
While Alfred Sisley is not the best-known French Impressionist, his works offer a fine expertise and sense of tranquility.
Edgar Degas in New Orleans
Edgar Degas was the only French Impressionist to travel to the United States, spending several months enjoying New Orleans' uniquely inspiring atmosphere.
Artist William Sidney Mount
Painter William Sidney Mount rejected classical themes to celebrate everyday scenes from 19th century American life.
Artist Albert Bierstadt
German-born Albert Bierstadt's vast, romantic paintings captured the spirit and promise of the early American West.
British Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rossetti was one of the founders of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artistic movement. Both painter and poet, his images and words created an ethereally sensuous world.
French Impressionist Gardens
Painters Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Gustave Caillebotte depicted many beautiful elements of nature in their works, and they were also avid gardners.
Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet
Artist Berthe Morisot held her own among the male-dominated Impressionists, and her friendship with fellow painter Edouard Manet would influence her career and his own
Artist Frederic Bazille
An excellent painter and also a patron of his Impressionist colleagues, Bazille's career was tragically cut short by his death in the Franco-Prussian War.
Gustave Caillebotte
A fine artist in his own right, Caillebotte was also a patron of his fellow Impressionists and a collector and donor of significant works.
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Short biography of the talented and independent-minded daughter of England's Queen Victoria.
John Singer Sargent
Short biography of the American expatriate known for his career as a portraitist and for his notorious painting Madame X.
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 		Van Gogh Ear Mutilation
Van Gogh scholar proposes that a letter from the painter's brother may be factor in the act of mutilating his ear.
The Experience of Nature in German Romantic Art
The transcendental power of Caspar David Friedrich's allegorical landscape paintings explained through the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Dr. Christopher Dresser
The Society for History and Graphics (SHAG) recently presented a history of the major artistic works of 19th-century designer, inventor, and botanist Christopher Dresser.
The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters poets and critics founded in 1848. They championed for a more traditional "natural" way of painting.
Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa"
Gericault a French Neo-Baroque painter is most known for this dramatic painting based on actual events.
Artist Henri Patrice Dillon
Active from the late 1870s until his death in 1909, Dillon depicted studio, street, café and theater scenes in the medium of which he was a master: lithography.
Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse
Though she was a poet and artist in her own right, Lizzie Siddal is best known as the idealized model of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview
The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood created a stir with their paintings and influence a lot of artists with their theme and ideas, the imagery they produced became famous.
Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction
Synthetism marks a move within avant-garde at the end of the19th century, towards art's autonomy based on purification of forms and independence of external influences.
Avant-Garde – The Beginning
Realism was the first revolutionary art movement which openly and explicitly posed a challenge to the authorities and is regarded as the first avant-garde movement.
Biography of the Russian Artist Ilya Repin
Repin brought the experience of the ordinary Russian into the picture. His work reflects the changing focus of culture in the years leading up to the 1917 revolution.
A Good Night Hug
Mary Cassatt was a member of the Impressionist school. Unmarried and childless, she nevertheless painted tender and beautiful images of motherhood.
The Life of Elizabeth Siddal
Lizzie Siddal was a lower-class London girl who never expected to be famous. But when she began modeling for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, her life changed forever.
Profile of the Victorian Artist Richard Dadd
Richard Dadd is best known for his fairy paintings, but his facinating work encompasses so much more.
Profile of Russian Artist Mikhail Vrubel
Vrubel is not so well known in the West, but the symbolist painter is one of Russia's great cultural icons.
Corot's Ville d'Avray on a Postcard
A masterpiece of color and detail, Camille Corot's Impressionist landscape can be appreciated fully only in real life.
Poe and Primitivism in Gauguin's Nevermore
While in Tahiti, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Gauguin created this sensuous portrait of a young native woman.
John William Waterhouse's Painting 'Ophelia'
Ophelia, the doomed maiden of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, is the subject of this late Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece painted in 1889.
Claude Monet and Giverny Garden
The life and art of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet after his move to Giverny in 1883.
Claude Monet Years Before Giverny
Biography of Claude Monet before Giverny. Pioneer of French Impressionism, famous for Impression Sunrise and his Giverny garden.
Subjects by Ingres and Courbet
What are the subjects doing in the paintings of these French artists and where can visitors see these paintings today?
Korean Munjado Screen
Letters of early-19th-century Korean Choson Dynasty art screen resemble medieval historiated initials of illuminated manuscripts in their similar symbolic embellishments.
Giovanni Segantini - a Short Biography
2008 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Segantini. London's National Gallery are exhibiting his work and that of his associates, the Divisionists.
Paul Gauguin Life and Works
Biography of Paul Gauguin, leader of the symbolist movement in art, and exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts. Like Van Gogh, proponent of Post-Impressionism.
Whistler's Nocturne Falling Rocket
James Whistler's suit against critic John Ruskin held that radical ideas in art ought not to be victim to unexamined attacks that denigrate the works to the public.
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