The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

From 1842 dates the pilgrimage of the German artists to Paris, Antwerp, and Brussels. In Delaroche, Cogniet, and Couture, in Wappers and Gallait, they believed they could discov...

Goethe compared the history of knowledge with a great fugue: the parts of the nations first come to light, little by little; and this analogy, already once made by Hettner, hold...

During the years which elapsed between 1820 and 1848 France produced a great and admirable school of art. After the convulsions of the Revolution and the wars of the Empire, tha...

If the question arises, why modern art has been compelled to find expression for itself in a form different from that of the art of the earlier centuries, we must first call att...

In France the first decade of the century gave no premonition of the powerful development which was shortly to take place in French art. A legion of characterless pupils issuing...

Immediately upon the epoch-making labours of the historians followed the first romances that were archæological and dealt with the history of civilisation; and hand in hand with...

Four years after Couture painted his "Roman Orgy," Napoleon III ascended the throne, and the Parisian orgy began. It was a remarkable spectacle that the capital offered in those...

It was reserved for two younger men to reach the aim that hovered in the far distance before Cornelius and the Düsseldorfians. And, by one of fortune's remarkable freaks, the gr...

Herein lies the great difference between France and Germany. Although following along new lines, the art of France did not thereby suffer as regards the quality of its execution...

As is usually the case, the heroes were succeeded by a generation less heroic and more practical. In this, art was in keeping with the deliberate and tranquil course of the stat...

A hundred years ago there lived a man of the name of Asmus Carstens; and he was the pioneer and founder of the new German art. That has become since Fernow a standing maxim in m...

Belgian art had gone through the same history as French art since David. When the French patriarch came to Brussels to pass the remainder of his days there in honour, he found t...

In France also modern art began with a stream of antiquarianism which flowed from the same archæological source. De Brosses published a history of the Roman Republic, and wrote...

More than seventeen hundred years ago there reigned a Roman emperor who loved art passionately. He looked upon it from an intellectual altitude which few have reached, and he va...

The Historical Picture of Manners as opposed to Historical Painting, an advance in the direction of intimacy of feeling.--The Antique Picture of Manners: Charles Gleyre, Louis H...

On the Rhine there existed a school of painting instead of a school of drawing, a fact which at that time placed Düsseldorf next in importance to Munich. Wilhelm Schadow, its fi...

James Dafforne: Modern Art. A series of line engravings from the works of distinguished painters of the English and Foreign Schools, selected from galleries and private collecti...

Periodicals chiefly: "Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst," Leipzig, 1866. "Die Kunst für Alle," München, 1886. "Die Kunst unserer Zeit" (specially the work of H. E. v. Berlepsch and...

Paul Lefort: "Gazette des Beaux Arts," 1875, ii 506; 1876, i 336; ii 500. Reprinted and enlarged under the title of Francisco Goya, Étude biographique et critique, suivie de l'e...

1. L'école française de David à Delacroix, par André Michel. 2. L'école française de Delacroix à H. Regnault, par Alfred de Lostalot. 3. La peinture française actuelle, par Paul...

Kaulbachs Wandgemälde im Treppenhause des Neuen Museums zu Berlin, in Kupfer gestochen von G. Eilers, H. Merz, J. L. Raab, A. Schultheiss. Mit erläuterndem Text herausgegeben un...

Amongst minor works: J. N. Sepp: Friedrich Overbeck, Gedächtnissrede. Augsburg, 1869.--Franz Binder: Zur Erinnerung an Friedrich Overbeck. München, 1870.--H. Holland: Zu Friedri...

Charles Clement (chief work): Prudhon, sa vie, ses oeuvres, et sa correspondance, first in 1867-68, then in "Gazette des Beaux Arts," 1872, with 30 Illustrations. Paris, Didier...

English influence upon the art of the Continent from the middle of the eighteenth century.--Sturm-und-Drang period in literature.--Rousseau.--Goethe's "Werther."--Schiller's "Ro...

Moderation the watchword of Louis Philippe's reign, in politics, literature, and art.--Jean Gigoux, a follower of Delacroix and an inexorable realist.--Eugène Isabey.--Middle po...

In France also the classical tendency in art was no new thing, but a revival of the antique which was restored to life by the foundation of the French Academy in Rome in 1663.--...

The influence of the antique at the end of the eighteenth century shows no advance, but an unnatural retrograde movement, and notes in Germany the beginning of the same decadenc...

The commencement of modern art in England.--Two divisions of modern art since the sixteenth century.--Classic and naturalistic schools.--English succeed the Dutch in the sevente...

Last years of the David school wearisome and without character, except in portrait painting.--François Gérard, the "King of Painters and Painter of Kings"; his portraits of the...

France under the Second Empire; the society of the period not represented in French art.--Continuation of the old traditions without essential change.--Alexandre Cabanel.--Willi...

The revolt of the Romanticists against Classicism in literature and art.--Théodore Géricault and his early works.--"The Raft of the Medusa."--Eugène Delacroix: protest against t...

On the Rhine, a school of painting instead of a school of drawing.--Wilhelm Schadow, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Theodor Hildebrandt, Carl Sohn, Heinrich Mücke, Christian Koehler, H...

Anselm Feuerbach, Victor Müller.--The Berlin school: Rudolf Henneberg, Gustav Richter, Knille, Schrader, and others.--The Munich school: Piloty, Hans Makart, Gabriel Max.--The h...

Influence of literature.--Wackenroder.--Tieck.--The Schlegels.--Instead of the antique, the Italian Quattrocento appears as the model for the schools.--Frederick Overbeck.--Phil...

Belgium to 1830.--David and his school.--Navez, Matthias van Bree.--Gustav Wappers, Nicaise de Keyzer, Henri Decaisne, Gallait, Bièfve.--Ernest Slingeneyer, Guffens and Swerts.-...