Paris in the Age of Revolution: There's More to French Art than Impressionism
By Professor Katie Hornstein. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars brought great changes to the arts in France and marked the emergence of Romanticism in French painting. Professor Hornstein will explore artists who were trying to figure out how to make truly modern art in the early 1800s, long before the Impressionists.
| Paris in the Age of Revolution: There's More to French Art than Impressionism |
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