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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Titian Titian Filippo Pedrocco "In the quarter century since the last catalogue raisonne of Titian, more research has been carried out on the painter than in the whole of the previous four hundred years. New documentation has come… OL136345W
The age of French impressionism The age of French impressionism Art Institute of Chicago. This volume highlights more than 100 of the Art Institute of Chicago's masterpieces, from the bold works of Édouard Manet, an important figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, to Clau… OL15994380W
Renoir Renoir Colin B. Bailey "Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s--the decade of Impressionism--his vertic… OL16361903W
Impressionist still life Impressionist still life George T. M. Shackelford,Eliza E. Rathbone Includes essays on Manet, Impressionism and the still-life tradition, and Cezanne. OL19671715W
America collects eighteenth-century French painting America collects eighteenth-century French painting Joseph Baillio,Joseph J. Rishel,Melissa Lee Hyde,Pierre Rosenberg,Robert Schindler,Christophe Leribault,Jack Hinton,Yuriko Jackall,Philippe Bordes,Susan Earle,D. Dodge Thompson "Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions… OL19720356W
Degas Degas Edgar Degas A beautiful celebration of six decades of work by Edgar Degas, published in the centennial year of the artist's death Edgar Degas's (1834-1917) relentless experimentation with technical procedures is… OL19731701W
The hidden Cézanne The hidden Cézanne Anita Haldemann,Matthew Thomas Simms,Richard Shiff,Oskar Bätschmann,Henrike Hans,Fabienne Ruppen,Annegret Seger One of the founding artists of modern art, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is now widely acclaimed as the preeminent painter of the late nineteenth century. Less well known is his groundbreaking work as a d… OL19737967W
Gustave Caillebotte Gustave Caillebotte Mary G. Morton,George T. M. Shackelford "More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the Nat… OL20008324W
Orientalist Aesthetics Orientalist Aesthetics Roger Benjamin "Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade's research in untapped archives, introduced many paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expa… OL2182359W
Madame Cézanne Madame Cézanne Dita Amory "Paul Cézanne's (1839-1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850-1922), his wife and the subject of some of his most iconic portraits, rank among the most powerful of their kind in French modernism. Ye… OL22323126W
Impressionism Impressionism N. V. Brodskai͡a "'I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.' What other words than these of Edouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the movemen… OL24806649W
The lure of the exotic The lure of the exotic Colta Feller Ives "The legendary, pioneering French artist who famously left his family and a career in finance to paint and live like a native in the South Seas, Paul Gauguin in fact began sailing to far-off lands du… OL2935823W
Painting outside the Lines Painting outside the Lines David W. Galenson "Why have some great modern artists - including Picasso - produced their most important work early in their careers while other - like Cezanne - have done theirs late in life? In a work that brings n… OL5098668W
The Joy of Life The Joy of Life Margaret Werth "The Joy of Life investigates the significance of the idyllic in French painting from the early 1890s to World War I, considering a fascinating series of pastoral, mythic, and utopian landscapes. Res… OL8303656W