Art Movements & Schools
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Passion against order: from Géricault's drama to Delacroix's blaze of color, the movement of feeling, the sublime and the exotic that thrilled the Salon.
Austrian Biedermeier & Habsburg Portraiture
The sober, precise art of the Austrian bourgeoisie, and the jewel-like imperial portraits of the Habsburg house from Francis I to Franz Joseph.
Born of the Barbizon lesson and named by a mocking critic in 1874, Impressionism turned light itself into the subject of painting and changed how modern eyes see.
Painters who left the studio for the Forest of Fontainebleau and taught France to look at nature: the Barbizon School (1830-1870), the movement that prepared Impressionism.