Alberti's Window

Today a perceptive student asked if art historians had ever discussed a connection between the paintings by Gustave Caillebotte (a 19th ce...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly can attest to my distaste for Renoir - particularly Renoir's later works. (Case in point: I used th...

I'm preparing a lecture on the Impressionists, and I've been completely distracted by Monet's D é jeuner sur L'Herbe (...

I think everyone has some kind of dream in which their worst fears are realized. Apparently, my worst fear revolves around being unprepared...

The complexity and diversity of art in the 19th century parallels the complex changes which occurred during the rise of modernism, particula...