The eldest son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas reinforced his formal academic art training by copying Old Master paintings both in Italy, where he spent three years (1856–1859), and at the Louvre. Degas early on developed a rigorous drawing style and a respect for line that he would maintain throughout his career.
of horse racing and by the end of the 1860s had also turned his attention to the theater
The eldest son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas reinforced his formal academic art training by copying Old Master paintings both in Italy, where he spent three years (1856–1859), and at the Louvre. Degas early on developed a rigorous drawing style and a respect for line that he would maintain throughout his career.
of horse racing and by the end of the 1860s had also turned his attention to the theater
The essays consider theater, the arts, dance, music, and fashion from Watteau’s
Out Recenter Visual Description We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater
Jan Steen was born in Leiden, where his father was a brewer and grain merchant. The date of his birth is not known, but the artist was twenty years old when he enrolled at the University of Leiden in 1646.
which are marked by a sophisticated use of contemporary literature and popular theater
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The essays consider theater, the arts, dance, music, and fashion from Watteau’s
Fascination with the life and times of William Shakespeare abounded in the Victorian world, especially in London, where American artist Edwin Austin Abbey settled permanently in 1883. The Bard’s writings provided lifelong inspiration for Abbey:
His approach also evokes the pictorialist fashion in late Victorian theater, which
The impressionist style developed as a method to render more accurately the appearance of the natural world, and was principally a technique for landscape painting. Corot, whose career began in the late 1820s when the academic tradition of landscape painting was being revived, was one of the most prolific and influential exponents of the genre.
Corot’s Salon Paintings: Sources from French Classicism to Contemporary Theater Design
Jean Antoine Watteau came from a modest family in the Flemish city of Valenciennes, which had been annexed by France in 1678. He is said to have spent his formative years training under either the religious painter Jacques Albert Gérin (c.
degree of the satirical whimsy that characterized his own specialized depictions of theater
making it less evident that Degas juxtaposed the sculpture and pastels as criminal theater
