French Art – Page 3 – Size Of Art

The title of this painting gave the name to the Impressionist art movement, and they have a critic, Louis Leroy, […]

Millet was one of the French Realists who wanted to depict their subjects truthfully without any artificiality. This scene is […]

Vernet was born in Avignon, France and went to Rome to study landscape and maritime painting. His paintings were mainly […]

November 2nd is All Souls days a Cristian commemoration of All Souls, the Holy Souls, or the Faithful Departed. In […]

The French Revolution lasted from 1789 until 1799. In this very bloody period, France was transforming from an absolute monarchy […]

Courbet once described himself as the “Proudest and most arrogant man in France”. In true artist style, he was tired […]

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who was not interested in real women, as he was “shocked at […]

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun had two things going against her. First of all, just before the start of the […]

For us, The Nightmare invokes the relationship of the incubus and the horse (mare) to nightmares. The etymology of the […]

Dante’s description of hell and its sinners in his Divine Comedy (written 1308 – 1320) has had a huge impact […]