Talking Objects

The Barbizon school, so called because its painters mainly resided in the village of Barbizon, led the way towards the Impressionist movemen...

     Before the 19th century rise of impressionism and the plein-air technique (painting outdoors), the subject matter that dominated Europ...

     With the west perceived as a vast, essentially unoccupied frontier, and a path to fulfillment of the American Dream, settlers pushed we...

During the Romantic period, German painters developed a type of landscape known in German as a stimmungslandschaft, which roughly translates...