The moral right of Laurie Schneider Adams to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
For Joseph T. Ruggiero
At Oneworld Publications, I would like to thank Mike Harpley for encouraging the publication of this book, Andrea DCruz for her excellent editing, Paul Nash, Laura McFarlane, and Kathleen McCully. John Adams read the entire manuscript and saved it from many errors. The anonymous reader offered several useful suggestions for which I am also grateful.
Plate 1 | Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon , 18051807 |
Plate 2 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Apotheosis of Homer , 1827 |
Plate 3 | Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up , 1838 , 1838 |
Plate 4 | Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise, Yosemite Valley , c .1870 |
Plate 5 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The Executions of May 3, 1808 , 1814 |
Plate 6 | Eugne Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People , 1830 |
Plate 7 | Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise , 1872 |
Plate 8 | douard Manet, The Railway , 18721873 |
Plate 9 | douard Manet, Corner of a Caf-Concert , 1879 |
Plate 10 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Swing , 1876 |
Plate 11 | James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White No. 2: The Little White Girl , 1864 |
Plate 12 | Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte , 18841886 |
Plate 13 | Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Arles, January 1889 , 1889 |
Plate 14 | Paul Gauguin, Te Arii Vahine (The Noble Woman) , 1896 |
Plate 15 | Paul Czanne, Large Bathers , c .19051906 |
Plate 16 | Edvard Munch, The Scream , 1893 |
Figure 1 | Richard Boyle (Earl of Burlington), Chiswick House, 17251729 |
Figure 2 | Labeled diagram of the three Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian |
Figure 3 | Carl Gotthard Langhans, Brandenburg Gate, 17881791 |
Figure 4 | Thomas Jefferson, Richmond Virginia State Capitol, 1788 |
Figure 5 | Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii , 1784 |
Figure 6 | Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath , 17891791 |
Figure 7 | Antonio Canova, Maria Paolina Borghese as Venus , 1808 |
Figure 8 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque , 1814 |
Figure 9 | Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare , 1781 |
Figure 10 | William Blake, Frontispiece of Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion , 18041820 |
Figure 11 | Caspar David Friedrich, The Stages of Life , 18341835 |
Figure 12 | John Constable, The Hay Wain , 1821 |
Figure 13 | Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation , 1836 |
Figure 14 | Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits , 1849 |
Figure 15 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Duendecitos (Hobgoblins), from Los Caprichos, 17971798, plate 49 of first edition of 1799 |
Figure 16 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Y son fieras (And They Are Wild Beasts), Fatal Consequences of the Bloody War in Spain with Bonaparte, Disasters of War , plate 5, 18101820 |
Figure 17 | Thodore Gricault, The Raft of the Medusa , 18181819 |
Figure 18 | Thodore Gricault, Portrait of a Kleptomaniac , c .1822 |
Figure 19 | Eugne Delacroix, Lion of the Atlas , c .1829 |
Figure 20 | Jean-Franois Millet, The Gleaners , 1857 |
Figure 21 | Honor Daumier, Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834 , 1834 |
Figure 22 | Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Memory of Civil War (also known as The Barricade, Rue de la Mortellerie, June 1848 ), c .18481850 |
Figure 23 | Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans , 1849 |
Figure 24 | Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers , 18491850 |
Figure 25 | Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines , 1849 |
Figure 26 | Camille Corot, Ville dAvray , c. 1867 |
Figure 27 | douard Manet, Olympia , 1865 |
Figure 28 | Titian, Venus of Urbino , c .1538 |
Figure 29 | John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents , 1850 |
Figure 30 | William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience , 18531854 |
Figure 31 | Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England , 18521855 |
Figure 32 | Wilhelm Leibl, Village Politicians , 18761877 |
Figure 33 | William Sidney Mount, California News , 1850 |
Figure 34 | Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front , 1866 |
Figure 35 | William Rimmer, The Dying Centaur , 1871 |
Figure 36 | Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic , 1875 |
Figure 37 | William Edward Kilburn, The Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, April 10, 1848 , 1848 |
Figure 38 | Jacob Riis, Bandits Roost, Mulberry Street, New York , c. 1888 |
Figure 39 | Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, 18901891 |
Figure 40 |