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  2. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement. Ancient Classical art ...

  3. Timeline of art - Wikipedia

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    1865 in artWork (Ford Madox Brown) completed 1864 in art – Birth of Toulouse-Lautrec 1863 in art – Birth of Edvard Munch , Paul Signac , Death of Eugène Delacroix ; Manet completes Le déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia and exhibits them at the Salon des Refusés to public ridicule and artistic admiration

  4. 1800 in art - Wikipedia

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    The year 1800 in art is often estimated to be the beginning of the change from the Neoclassicism movement, that was based on Roman art, to the Romantic movement, which encouraged emotional art and ended around 1850 and brought forth a new era of artistic exploration. Artists of that time departed from traditional norms, embracing fresh ideas ...

  5. Table of years in art - Wikipedia

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    The table of years in art is a tabular display of all years in art, for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s - 1900s - 1800s - 1700s - 1600s - 1500s - 1400s - 1300s - 1200s - 1100s - 1000s

  6. Western painting - Wikipedia

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    The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. [1] Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and traditional modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.

  7. Oath of the Horatii - Wikipedia

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    This painting shows the neoclassical art style, [7] and employs various techniques that were typical of it: The background is de-emphasized, while the figures in the foreground are emphasized. Overlapping ranks of profile figures are a common motif in classical art, and that of ancient Near Eastern cultures.

  8. Nineteenth-century theatre - Wikipedia

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    Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...

  9. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.