Italian Sculpture : 17th centuryItalian Sculpture17th centuryThe phenomenal range and popularity of the statuettes of Giambologna provided his followers with a ready source of income and an incentive to continu ...more

Italian Sculpture : 15th centuryItalian Sculpture15th century.(a) Central Italy.During the Renaissance the sculptor's repertory was increased by the revival of the bronze statuette. Ancie ...more

Styles of Sculpture from Antiquity to Present DayStyles of Sculpture from Antiquity to Present Day Mesopotamian    Sumerian c. 3500-2500 BC ...more

Prix de RomePrix de RomeTerm applied to the premier student prize awarded by the successive state-sponsored academies in Paris. The successful painter, sculptor or architect was able to study at the Académie d ...more

The Norwich School of PaintersThe Norwich School of Painters A group of landscape painters established in Norwich, East Anglia, during the early part of the 19th Century. The Norwich Society was founded at a meeting of ...more

MANNERISMMannerism [It. maniera]. Name given to the stylistic phase in the art of Europe between the High Renaissance and the Baroque, covering the period from c. 1510-20 to 1600. It is also sometimes referred to as late Renaissance, and ...more

HIGH RENAISSANCEAll the artistic trends of the 15th century culminated around 1500 in the short-lived High Renaissance, which Heinrich Wölfflin, in Klassische Künst (introduction, 1898), described as the Classic Art of the moder ...more

GILT BRONZE : 1600-1800Introduction.Baroque and Rococo.Neo-classicism. Introduction. The use of gilt-bronze in furnishings during the 17th and 18th centuries was one expression of the resurgence of a more refined lifesty ...more

GILDING AFTER 1800In the 19th century wrought-iron was primarily utilized for the production of domestic objects, particularly those for heating and cooking, and thus its use declined with the progressive rejection of open-hearth fires. At the ...more

ART LIFE IN FRANCE : 1870-1914Under the Third Republic, Paris continued to prosper as a center of artistic production, through both private and public enterprise. Throughout this period the artistic population grew, fed by the provinces and fore ...more

ART LIFE IN FRANCE : 1815 - 1869Marked by a sequence of diverse political regimes (monarchy, republic and Empire), two revolutions and a coup d'état, Paris between 1815 and 1870 underwent a rapid succession of different artistic styles an ...more

ART LIFE IN FRANCE : 1789 - 1814The French Revolution profoundly transformed the conditions in which art was both produced and received in Paris. The entire institutional framework was shaken up. A new understanding of the function of art in society emer ...more

ART LIFE IN FRANCE : 1789 - 1814The French Revolution profoundly transformed the conditions in which art was both produced and received in Paris. The entire institutional framework was shaken up. A new understanding of the function of art in society emer ...more

FRENCH SCULPTURE : 1814-1900FRENCH SCULPTURE : 1814 - 1900 Styles Artists and Influences1814-1900(1) Influence of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.(2) Public statuary and the influence of government.(3) Romanticis ...more

FRENCH SCULPTUREFrench Sculpture. The tradition of stone sculpture appears to be very ancient in France, at least in the south, for some reliefs decorated with schematized figures, from Entremont (Aix, Mus. Granet) and Ensérune ...more