The Grand Tour gave concrete form to Northern Europeans’ ideas about the Greco-Roman world and helped foster Neoclassical ideals.
intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs
In 1856, a seventeen-year-old named Adeline Harris (1839-1931) conceived of a unique project: to collect the autographs of the well-known people she most esteemed. This, in itself, was not unusual; the practice of collecting autographs of famous people was very popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century
His souvenirs are valueless to him, unless he is thoroughly informed of the individuals
Boilly was born and educated around Lille. He moved to Paris in 1785 and exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824. A painter in the tradition of Dutch seventeenth-century naturalism, for which he prepared by studying trompe l’œil as well as caricature, Boilly was well-known for genre scenes and for small-scale portraits, of which he claimed to have painted 4,500, most in single two-hour sittings
Vol. 1, Souvenirs & documents inédits. Paris, 1880, p. 432. Henry Harrisse. L.
Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
Indigenous peoples, by the mid-1800s, settler communities were seeking out blankets as souvenirs
The Painting: In his mid-fifties and at the height of his career, Paul Cézanne began a series of paintings, drawings, and watercolors of card players. The unprecedented repetition of the theme of card players and the monumental scale at which he chose to work in two of the later canvases demonstrate the significance of the project for him
Cézanne referred to his five paintings of card players as „souvenirs of the museums
The memory, meaning, and makers of Palestinian embroidery.
travel made way for the selling, looting, and reselling of cultural objects as souvenirs
The Artist: The great history painter and portraitist Jacques Louis David studied with Joseph Marie Vien and then, in 1766, entered the school of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
Mémoires et souvenirs. Paris, 1834, p. 27. Charles Blanc.
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Gachet, by his son, and by other amateurs in their circle, as well as a trove of „souvenirs
„Les intransigeants et les impressionnistes: Souvenirs du salon libre de 1877.“
