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The Pre-Raphaelites: This artistic brotherhood took medieval art and gave it a new spin.

By: Phillip Burghgraef

Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa": A Neo-Baroque Masterpiece

By: Phillip Burghgraef

Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic: 19th Century Masterwork of American Realism

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artist Henri Patrice Dillon: Young Diplomat Turned Chronicler Of Paris Life

By: Gail Mangold-Vine

Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse: Troubled Red-Haired Beauty Became an Art Icon

By: Jenny Ashford

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paris: Paintings by Caillebotte, Monet, Van Gogh and Seurat

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Harvest Scenes in 19th Century Art: Works by Pissarro, Bouguereau, Van Gogh and Gauguin

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview: "Desperate Romantics" Series Profiles19th-Century British Artists

By: Solange Berchemin

Cleopatra in 19th Century Art: Paintings by Gerôme, Cabanel, Moreau and Rixens

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction: Synthetism and Paul Gaugin's Painting 'The Yellow Christ'

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Avant-Garde – The Beginning: Realism and Gustave Courbet's Painting 'The Stonebreakers'

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Biography of the Russian Artist Ilya Repin: This 19th Century Painter was a Pioneer of Realism

By: Victoria Robinson

A Good Night Hug: A Painting by Mary Cassatt

By: Maria Olaguera

The Life of Elizabeth Siddal: Biography of Lizzie Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse

By: Feature Writer Jillian Bost

Late 19th Century Scenes of Summer: Paintings by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Profile of the Victorian Artist Richard Dadd: This English Painter Worked Obsessively Throughout his Incarceration

By: Victoria Robinson

Profile of Russian Artist Mikhail Vrubel: This Late 19th-Century Painter Founded Russian Art Nouveau

By: Victoria Robinson

Artist Mary Cassatt in Spain: The Seville Paintings

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Corot's Ville d'Avray on a Postcard: In Miniature, Painting Seems to Lose its Subtle Complexity

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

Poe and Primitivism in Gauguin's Nevermore: A Post-Impressionist Painting Inspired by "The Raven"

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

John William Waterhouse's Painting 'Ophelia': A Victorian Artist's Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Tragic Beauty

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

Marie Bashkirtseff: Ukrainian-Born Artist and Writer

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artist Alfred Sisley: French Impressionist Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Claude Monet and Giverny Garden: Water Lilies, Ponds, Japanese Bridge, and Weeping Willow Paintings

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Claude Monet Years Before Giverny: French Impressionist Painter, Artist

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Edgar Degas in New Orleans: The French Impressionist's Louisiana Visit

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Subjects by Ingres and Courbet: 19th-Century Painters Experimented with Perspective and Proportion

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Artist William Sidney Mount: Long Island-Born American Genre Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Korean Munjado Screen: Asian Screens With Decorated Chinese Characters

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Artist Albert Bierstadt: Landscape Painter of American Western Scenes

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

British Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Painter and Poet

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Giovanni Segantini - a Short Biography: Italian Divisionist Painter Showing at National Gallery

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

Paul Gauguin Life and Works: French Painter and Engraver, Post-Impressionist Artist

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

French Impressionist Gardens: The Flowering Worlds of Monet, Manet and Caillebotte

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet: A Uniquely Artistic Friendship

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Whistler's Nocturne Falling Rocket: Subject of Libel Suit Against Critic John Ruskin in 1878

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Artist Frederic Bazille: French Impressionist Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

John Constable's Tribute: A Painting to Memorialize a Monument for Sir Joshua Reynolds

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Gustave Caillebotte: French Impressionist Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll: Artist and Royal Free Spirit

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

John Singer Sargent: Artist and Portrait Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Naturalistic Self-Portraits: With a Fellow Artist, With a Black Dog, and With the Colosseum

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

The Pre-Raphaelites: origins of a brotherhood of English 19th century artists

By: George Frederick Winter

Which 19th-Century Painter: What are Millais, Beardsley, Cezanne, and Monet known for?

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Eugene Delacroix: Greatest French Romantic Painter of 19th century

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Guess the European Artist: Can You Name These 19th-Century English and French Painters?

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Vincent van Gogh's Life and Times: Post-Impressionist Dutch Painter Famous for "The Starry Night"

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

"The Poor Poet”: This painting by Carl Spitzweg is filled with symbols – from the familiar scene of the starving artist living in a remote loft to the top hat, walking stick and cravat that epitomizes a typical 19th-century German – and is itself a symbol of the Biedermeier era.

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

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