Gloria victis! Ediz. inglese

A book that places the controversial and then triumphant rise of Impressionism in the context of 19th century French Academic painting.Gloria Victis! describes the artistic climate of the years 1848-1910 through a selection of over seventy works by French painters and sculptors, exponents both of the Academic style and the Impressionist movement: these artists include Bernard, Ingres, Carolus-Durand, Gérôme, Maillol, Carrière, Tissot, Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir and Rodin, leading exponents of the academic style and of the new, avant-garde movement, Impressionism, respectively the “accepted” and “rejected” in the arts.