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KLINGER, Max The Colosseum in Rome 1888 Oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Princesa Clothilde von Saxen Coburg, 1855.

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Girl on her Knees Discharges a Flower Basket, Marie Ellenrieder, 1841

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BENCZÚR, Gyula My Favourites 1901 Oil on canvas, 115,5 x 75,5 cm Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

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Adam Chmielowski (polish, 1845-1916)

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William Adolphe Bouguereau, The Oreads (detail), 1902

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William Adolphe Bouguereau, The Oreads (detail), 1902

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Albert Lynch

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard : The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned (1771-1772) details.

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Claude Monet was in almost every sense the founder of French Impressionist painting, the term itself coming from one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise. As a child, his father wanted him to go into the grocery business, but his heart was in the profession of artistry, and at age 11, he entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. During his stay at the secondary school, he was known for the caricatures he would draw for the locals for ten to twenty francs each. Five years later, he met artist Eugene Bouldin, who taught him the techniques of “en plein air” painting and became his mentor. At the age of 16, Monet left school for Paris, where instead of studying the great artworks of the masters, he sat by the window and painted what he saw outside.

When he was twenty-one years old, he joined the First Regiment of African Light Calvary in Algeria, for a seven year tour. But his stay was cut short after two years when he was hit by a bout of typhoid fever, and his aunt arranged for his release, as long as he continued his art studies. Upon his return to Paris, he studied the “en plein air” methods, along with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley, and developed the painting style that would soon be known as Impressionism. Upon the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Monet fled to England, also traveling to the Netherlands before his return to Paris, after which he exhibited many of his works in 1874, at the first Impressionist Exhibition

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The Death of Demosthenes. 1879. Emile Pichot. French 1857- oil/canvas. http://hadrian6. tumblr.com

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The Artist’s House in Argenteuil - Claude Monet - 1876

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Queen Elizabeth signing the Death Warrant of Mary, Queen of Scots (1879). Sándor Liezen-Mayer (Hungarian, 1839-1898). Oil on canvas. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest.

Mary was convicted of treason. Elizabeth hesitated to order her execution, even in the face of pressure from the English Parliament to carry out the sentence. She was concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent. On 1 February 1587, Elizabeth signed the death warrant.