Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1780-1880

by Fritz Novotny

Book Overview

From the Classicism of Jacques-Louis David to the Realism of Courbet and the Early Impressionism of Renoir the former Director of the Osterreichische Galerie at Vienna outlines the course taken by painting and sculpture on the continent of Europe during the nineteenth century. Faced with the untidy sprawl of individualism which followed the French Revolution and threw up isolated geniuses like Goya, Fritz Novotny nevertheless succeeds in charting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014056120X
• ISBN13: 9780140561203
• Release Date: February 1973
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 483 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.