A History of French Painting : from its earliest to its latest practice : including an account of the French Academy of Painting, its salons, schools of instruction and regulations / by C.H. Stranahan, with reproductions of sixteen representative paintings.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stranahan, Clara Cornelia Harrison
Corporate Author: Académie des beaux-arts (France)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1907, c1888.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Painting in France to the Close of the Fifteenth Century
  • II. Sixteenth Century : Height of Italian Influence and Beginning of Official Patronage
  • III. Seventeenth Century : The Age of Louis XIV : Founding of the Academy
  • IV. Eighteenth Century : Emancipation of Artistic Execution
  • V. Beginning of the Nineteenth Century : General View and First Period : Classicism
  • VI. Period Two : Romanticism from its Definite Recognition in 1824 to the Revolt of Artists in 1848
  • VII. Period Three : From the Free Salon of 1848 to the Present Time : Period of Individuality.