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For a long time, especially during the French Revolution, history painting often focused on depiction of the heroic male nude; though this waned in the 19th century. After history painting came, in order of decreasing worth: portraits, scenes of everyday life (called scènes de genre, or "genre painting", and also petit genre to contrast it ...
19th-century art groups (4 C, 39 P) I. Impressionism (7 C, 85 P) M. Modern art (69 C, 261 P, 13 F) Art museums and galleries established in the 19th century (10 C) N.
William Powell Frith (1819–1909) was perhaps the most famous English genre painter of the Victorian era, painting large and extremely crowded scenes; the expansion in size and ambition in 19th-century genre painting was a common trend. Other 19th-century English genre painters include Augustus Leopold Egg, Frederick Daniel Hardy, George Elgar ...
This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies , evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; Pages in category "19th-century allegorical paintings" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Peasant Character Studies is a series of works that Vincent van Gogh made between 1881 and 1885. Van Gogh had a particular attachment and sympathy for peasants and other working class people that was fueled in several ways. He was particularly fond of the peasant genre work of Jean-François Millet and others. He found the subjects noble and ...
Julio Romero de Torres developed a realistic style with a certain archaizing tendency in which, starting from typical genre scenes, he gives these themes a greater allegorical transcendence that moves them away from the tedious picturesqueness of Spanish 19th century painting to turn them into scenes of almost mystical evocation. In his work ...
In the 18th century, small paintings of working people remained popular, mostly drawing on the Dutch tradition and featuring women. Much art depicting ordinary people, especially in the form of prints, was comic and moralistic, but the mere poverty of the subjects seems relatively rarely to have been part of the moral message. From the mid-19th ...
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