This refreshingly direct study addresses 19th-century European art along with the forces that informed it. After introducing historical events and cultural and artistic trends from about 1760 that would exert their influence well into the new century, author Petra ten-Doesschate Chu discusses the advent of Modernism and its many interpretations. She considers the changing relat...(展开全部)

For one-semester courses in 19th-Century Art, and two-semester courses that cover the periods of 1760-1830 and 1830-1900. This essential survey of European art and visual culture in the nineteenth-century treats art forms within a broad historical framework to show the connections between visual cultural production and the political, social, and economic order of the time. ...(展开全部)

This refreshingly direct study addresses 19th-century European art along with the forces that informed it. After introducing historical events and cultural and artistic trends from about 1760 that would exert their influence well into the new century, author Petra ten-Doesschate Chu discusses the advent of Modernism and its many interpretations. She considers the changing relat...(展开全部)

曲培醇（Petra ten-Doesschate Chu）教授生于荷兰，定居于美国，自1972年起在美国西东大学美术与音乐系担任教授，教龄四十余年，公认为19世纪艺术研究领域的权威学者。现任西东大学美术与音乐系学术总监，《十九世纪世界艺术》执行主编，曾任十九世纪艺术史研究者协会主席。多次获奖，包括简与摩根•惠特尼艺术史学术奖金、约翰•西蒙•古根海姆纪念学术奖金，以及两次美国国家人文基金会奖金。著作十余本，包括《法国现实主义与荷兰诸大师》《透视库尔贝》《古斯塔夫•库尔贝的信》《十九世纪欧洲艺术史》《法国最自负的人：古斯塔夫•库尔贝与十九世纪媒介文化》。 丁宁，北京大学艺术学院教授、副院长，任中国美术家协会理事、北京国际双年展策划委员、教育部美术学科指导委员会副主任委员。著有《接受之维》《美术心理学》《绵延之维——走向艺术史哲学》《艺术的深度》《图像缤纷...(展开全部)

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other countries. Artists were highly valued and richly compensated during this period, with many receiving lucrative commissions from pa...(展开全部)

In the fourteenth century, Europe was a place ravaged by the effects of war and famine and then devastated by the Black Death. These multiple crises lead to a widespread mystical religiosity, which emphasised both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering. This in turn inspired the creation of some of the most magnificent religious art of the period, from depictions of the Crucifixion...(展开全部)

This latest volume in the acclaimed "Art through the Centuries Series" explores the most important and influential artists and artistic concepts of the eighteenth century.While the Baroque style had dominated the previous century, a new sensibility - the Rococo - emerged during the early 1700s. The Rococo style, characterized by delicately curving forms, pastel colour, and a li...(展开全部)

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other countries. Artists were highly valued and richly compensated during this period, with many receiving lucrative commissions from pa...(展开全部)

John Theodore Merz (1840-1922) was an industrial chemist and philosopher who came to Britain from his native Germany in 1867. His life-long work was dominated by the desire to contribute towards the unification of knowledge. Uniting the two cultures of science and the arts, Merz's "History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century" is an extended survey of the development o...(展开全部)