Painting and sculpture in Europe, 1780 to 1880 / Fritz Novotny ; [translated from the German by R.H. Boothroyd]

Novotny, Fritz (1902-1983)

1960, First Edition. Harmondsworth : Penguin. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #467155

Series; The Pelican history of art ; 20. Physical description; xxii, 288 pages, 192 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm. Notes; Translated from the German by R.H. Boothroyd. Contents; Classicism in France -- Classicism in Germany and Austria -- Landscape-painting during the Classical revival -- Classicism in other countries (the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia) -- German Romanticism and the Nazarenes -- Francisco de Goya -- The French 'Romantiques' -- Early Naturalism (Biedermeier painting) -- German Biedermeier Romanticism (Spitzweg, Schwind, Richter, Rethel, and others) -- Late Romanticism and early Romanticism in other countries -- Realism in France -- Naturalism in Germany -- Under the sign of Realism -- 'Intellectual' painting in the latter half of the nineteenth century -- French Impressionism -- The situation about 1880 -- The sculpture of the Classicist period -- Sculpture in the days of Romanticism and Realism -- Sculpture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century -- The return to form. Subjects; Painting, European. 18th century. Painting, European. 19th century. Sculpture, European. 18th century. Sculpture, European. 19th century. Neoclassicism (Art). Europe. Romanticism in art. Europe. Realism in art. Europe. Impressionism (Art). France.

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