Rejecting the idealized classicism of academic art and the exotic themes of Romanticism, Realism was based on direct observation of the modern world.
such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, satirizing government officials and the manners
Initially trained as a lawyer, Matisse developed an interest in art only at age twenty-one.
early work, which he began exhibiting in 1895, was informed by the dry academic manner
Labille-Guiard’s clients are most often presented in bust- or half-length against a shaded ground of a solid color, bringing her sitters‘ faces and costumes closely into view. She was admired by her contemporaries for her skill at capturing their expressions
for this study sets off her face and accords well with the gentle reserve of her manner
The first comprehensive survey of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings ever presented in America, this international loan exhibition brings together nearly 120 works of extraordinary beauty by one of the great masters of all time, surveying his staggering contribution as an artist, scientist, theorist, and teacher.
an art-historical term created to describe his seamless blending of tone in the manner
The young czar, feeling oppressed by the medieval traditions and ecclesiastical patriarchy of seventeenth-century Moscow, wanted to Westernize Russia in a hurry, defying the sluggish pace of history.
demonstrating the court’s new international status and its observance of western European manners
Under the influence of Joannes and Andreas Ruckers I, in the seventeenth century Antwerp reached its peak of production and began producing more uniform instruments.
allowed the player to activate several notes at once, or in quick succession in a manner
People of the ancient Near East inhabited a world that was saturated with supernatural powers, and the arts of the Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian periods show the range of deities available to the individual as sources of protection and well-being.
Enkidu—who, according to the story, is a capable defender of flocks but lacks table manners
Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner
Said to be from Nola (Beazley 1963, p. 197, no. 3). Until 1919, private collection, UK; May 22-23, 1919, purchased by William Randolph Hearst through Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London; 1919-1951, collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York and San Simeon; 1951-1956, with the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, New York; acquired in 1956, purchased from the W
Berlin Painter 5th century BCE Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) Attributed to the manner
This manner of painting, which is very different from the traditional Egyptian style
