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Oct 25, 2009
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.
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Sep 14, 2009
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paris
Views of the French capital by Impressionists Caillebotte and Monet and Post-Impressionists Van Gogh and Seurat.
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Sep 6, 2009
Harvest Scenes in 19th Century Art
Views of harvest-time by artists Camille Pissarro, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
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Aug 13, 2009
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.
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Jun 21, 2009
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.
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Feb 25, 2009
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.
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Jan 21, 2009
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.
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Nov 5, 2009
The Pre-Raphaelites
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Phillip Burghgraef
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters poets and critics, that was founded in 1848. They championed for a more traditional "natural" way of painting.
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Nov 4, 2009
Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa"
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Phillip Burghgraef
Gericault a French Neo-Baroque painter is most known for this dramatic painting based on actual events.
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Sep 16, 2009
Artist Henri Patrice Dillon
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Gail Mangold-Vine
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.
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Sep 14, 2009
Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse
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Jenny Ashford
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.
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Aug 14, 2009
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview
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Solange Berchemin
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.
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Aug 9, 2009
Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction
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Zuzana Minarikova
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.
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Aug 8, 2009
Avant-Garde – The Beginning
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Zuzana Minarikova
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.
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