"The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class being held under the supervision of Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, in the old Paris Opera, which had actually burnt down the previous year. The poster on the wall for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell is a tribute to the operatic"
"The Absinthe Drinker (Manet painting) The Absinthe Drinker (French: ""Le Buveur d'absinthe"") is an early painting by Édouard Manet, c.1859, considered to be his first major painting and first original work. Manet became a student in the studio of Thomas Couture from 1850 but grew to dislike his master's Salon style and thereafter set up his own studio in 1856. Little of Manet's earliest work survives and much may have been destroyed by Manet himself. ""The Absinthe Drinker"" is a full-length portrait of an alcoholic ""chiffonnier"" (rag-picker) named Collardet who frequented the area around the Louvre in Paris. Collardet is"
"It was one of the first modern works added to the collection at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, where it is still held. The Absinthe Drinker (Manet painting) The Absinthe Drinker (French: ""Le Buveur d'absinthe"") is an early painting by Édouard Manet, c.1859, considered to be his first major painting and first original work. Manet became a student in the studio of Thomas Couture from 1850 but grew to dislike his master's Salon style and thereafter set up his own studio in 1856. Little of Manet's earliest work survives and much may have been destroyed by Manet himself. ""The Absinthe Drinker"""
"to the work, claiming that ""the picture is merely a work of art, and has nothing to do with drink or sociology."" L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the"
"L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Painted in 1875–76, the work portrays a woman and man sitting side-by-side, drinking a glass of absinthe. They"
"tones. Adopting the current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, he painted ""The Absinthe Drinker"" (1858–59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafés, and bullfights. After his early career, he rarely painted religious, mythological, or historical subjects; examples include his ""Christ Mocked"", now in the Art Institute of Chicago, and ""Christ with Angels"", in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Manet had two canvases accepted at the Salon in 1861. A portrait of his mother and father, who at the time was paralysed and robbed of speech by a stroke, was ill-received by"
"to a more classical style of painting he learned copying paintings in the Louvre while maintaining the bright palette of his fellow Impressionists. Dance at Bougival Dance at Bougival (French: La Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It has been described as ""one of the museum's most beloved works"". The work depicts two of Renoir's friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote. The setting is the French village of Bougival, about 15 km from the center of Paris. Many Impressionists"
"Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) () is a portrait by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in 1903 during his Blue Period. The oil painting depicts Picasso's friend and fellow painter, Angel Fernandez de Soto, in a bar with a glass of absinthe. The painting was previously owned by musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. On 23 June 2010, the painting was sold at auction for £34.7 million. ""Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto"" is a study of a young Spanish artist sitting in a bar, shrouded in"
"these included Édouard Manet, Guy de Maupassant, Amedeo Modigliani, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Verlaine, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, and Émile Zola. Many other renowned artists and writers similarly drew from this cultural well, including Aleister Crowley, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and August Strindberg. The aura of illicitness and mystery surrounding absinthe has played into literature, movies, music, and television, where it is often portrayed as a mysterious, addictive, and mind-altering drink. Absinthe has served as the subject of numerous works of fine art, films, video, music, and literature since the mid-19th-century. Some of the earliest film references"
"Pylkkänen, president of Christie's Europe division said the painting is ""one of the most important works of art to be offered at auction in decades"". On 23 June 2010, the painting came to auction and was sold for £34.7 million to an anonymous telephone bidder. Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) () is a portrait by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in 1903 during his Blue Period. The oil painting depicts Picasso's friend and fellow painter, Angel Fernandez de Soto, in a bar with a glass of absinthe."
"of Impressionism. An example is Monet's ""Jardin à Sainte-Adresse"", 1867, with its bold blocks of colour and composition on a strong diagonal slant showing the influence of Japanese prints Edgar Degas was both an avid photographer and a collector of Japanese prints. His ""The Dance Class"" ""(La classe de danse)"" of 1874 shows both influences in its asymmetrical composition. The dancers are seemingly caught off guard in various awkward poses, leaving an expanse of empty floor space in the lower right quadrant. He also captured his dancers in sculpture, such as the ""Little Dancer of Fourteen Years"". The central figures"
"the paintings of ordinary people by Diego Velázquez (particularly his paintings of ""Aesop"" and ""Menippus""), and from Watteau's ""L'Indifférent"". Near the completion of the painting, Manet showed the work to his former master. Asked for his opinion, Couture is said to have retorted: ""An absinthe drinker! And they paint abominations like that! My poor friend, you are the absinthe drinker. It is you who have lost your moral sense."" (quoted, for example, in Lainer, and in Adams). ""The Absinthe Drinker"" was the first work that Manet submitted to the Paris Salon in 1859. It was rejected with only Eugène Delacroix"
"the portico of Brera. He also painted in the Pacheco Chapel of Buenos Aires and a Chapel in the Sanctuary at Loreto. Modesto Faustini Modesto Faustini (27 May 1839 – 1891) was an Italian painter. Faustini was born in Brescia and died in Rome. He was initially trained as a carpenter in the orphanage of Brescia, but then was trained in the Brera Academy under a scholarship of Tosio Martinengo. In 1869, he won a stipend at the Brescian competition and moved to Rome. Faustini tended to paint religious canvases. His most prominent works were ""St Francis of Assisi"", ""The"
"spontaneous and freely worked of the two, characteristic of ""en plein air"" work. Bal du moulin de la Galette Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and"
"Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; ; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist ""Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"" (1907), and ""Guernica"" (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica"
"The Dance Lesson The Dance Lesson (sometimes known as The Dancing Lesson) is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas created around 1879. It is currently kept at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. There is at least one other work by Degas by this title, also made in about 1879, which is a pastel. The painting is the first of a series of about 40 pictures that Degas painted in this horizontal, frieze-like format. It measures . To the far left is a double bass with an exhausted dancer wearing a bright orange"
"Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter and polymath who achieved legendary fame and iconic status within his own lifetime. His renown primarily rests upon his brilliant achievements as a painter, the ""Mona Lisa"" and the ""Last Supper"", being two of the most famous artworks ever created, but also upon his diverse skills as a scientist and inventor. He became so highly valued during his lifetime that the King of France bore him home like a trophy of war, supported him in his old age and,"
"the lives of his subjects. He died at Venice in 1658. Carlo Ridolfi Carlo Ridolfi (1594–1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period. Ridolfi was born in Lonigo near Vicenza. He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Vassilacchi (Aliense). He painted a ""Visitation"" for the Ognissanti and an ""Adoration of the Magi"" for San Giovanni Elemosinario in Venice. He copied Tintoretto's ""Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet"" in San Marcuola, before it came to the collection of King Charles I of England. Ridolfi's copy still remains in San Marcuola. He was certainly best known, in his"
"The Valpinçon Bather The Valpinçon Bather (Fr: La Grande Baigneuse) is an 1808 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), held in the Louvre since 1879. Painted while the artist was studying at the French Academy in Rome, it was originally titled Seated Woman but later became known after one of its nineteenth-century owners. Although the painting was not met with favour by critics when first exhibited, almost fifty years later, when the artist's reputation was well established, the Goncourt brothers wrote that ""Rembrandt himself would have envied the amber color of this pale torso"", while"
"Apollonio Domenichini Apollonio Domenichini, alternatively referred to as the Maestro della Fondazione Langmatt, or Menichini or il Menichino (Venice, 1715 - c.1770) was an Italian painter of vedute, active in Venice, Italy, between 1740 and 1770. He was a pupil of Luca Carlevarijs and Johan Richter. He is best known for his pictorial representations of views of Venice and its surroundings. His name is recorded in the records of the fraglia or guild of Venetian painters in 1757, and it often appears as the painter of many works sent by the art dealer Giovanni Maria Sasso to the English minister"
"The Swing (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) The Swing (French: La balançoire) is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir who was a leading exponent of the Impressionist style. The painting was executed in 1876. The painting measures 92 x 73 centimetres and is in the Musée d’Orsay. Renoir executed the painting in what are now the Musée de Montmartre gardens. He had rented a cottage in the gardens so that he be could closer to the ""Moulin de la Galette"" where he was engaged in painting ""Bal du moulin de la Galette"". Renoir's people seem to stand on"
"Domine quo vadis? Domine, quo vadis? is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), depicting a scene from the apocrypha Acts of Peter. Dating from c. 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery, London, where it is given the title Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way. The subject is a rare representation in art of the theme Quo vadis. Annibale Carracci was the founder of the Italian Baroque painting school, called Bolognese School. This painting is one of his best known works. Peter is depicted fleeing from Rome to avoid crucifixion and has"
"ideas, and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art. His works are housed at leading public galleries in Germany. Stuttgart has the second version of ""Iphigenia""; Karlsruhe, the ""Dante at Ravenna""; Munich, the ""Medea""; and Berlin, ""The Concert"", his last important painting. Other major works include ""The Battle of the Amazons"", ""Pietà"", ""The Symposium of Plato"", ""Orpheus and Eurydice"" and ""Ariosto in the Park of Ferrara"". Anselm Feuerbach Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. Feuerbach was"
"houses, to geometric schemas, to cubes. La danse, Bacchante La danse (also known as Bacchante) is an oil painting created circa 1906 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). ""Bacchante"" is a pre-Cubist or Proto-Cubist work executed in a highly personal Divisionist style during the height of the Fauve period. ""Bacchante"" was painted in Paris at a time when Metzinger and Robert Delaunay painted portraits of one another, exhibiting together at the Salon d'Automne and the Berthe Weill gallery. ""Bacchante"" was exhibited in Paris during the spring of 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants (No. 3460), along with"
"selections indicate that he understood who Van Gogh was and the messages about the peasant or working man that he wished to convey through his work. ""Glass of Absinthe and a Carafe"" (F339) was made by Van Gogh in a café. On the table sits a glass of absinthe, its green-yellow liquid lighter for window's sunlight and in contrast to the brown background. The painting catches a moment in the café from a patron's perspective, with a view of pedestrians walking on the street. Absinthe was popular to Van Gogh and other artists both as a drink, although toxic and"
"Bal du moulin de la Galette Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening. Like other works of Renoir's early maturity, ""Bal"
"aesthetic movements. New Orleans has a cultural association with absinthe and is credited as the birthplace of the Sazerac, perhaps the earliest absinthe cocktail. The ""Old Absinthe House"" bar on Bourbon Street sold absinthe since the first half of the 19th century. Its Catalan lease-holder Cayetano Ferrer named it the ""Absinthe Room"" in 1874 because of the popularity of the drink, which was served in the Parisian style. It was frequented by Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Aleister Crowley, and Frank Sinatra. Absinthe became associated with violent crimes and social disorder, and one modern writer claims that this"
"Domenico di Michelino Domenico di Michelino (1417–1491) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school and a follower of the style of Fra Angelico. He was born and died in Florence. Michelino predominantly painted scenes from the Bible. His most famous work can be found on the west wall of Florence's ""Duomo"" (cathedral) Santa Maria del Fiore, including ""La commedia illumina Firenze"" (""The Comedy Illuminating Florence""), showing Dante Alighieri and the ""Divina Commedia"" (""Divine Comedy""). Along with Dante and the city of Florence, the work depicts Hell, Mount Purgatory, the earthly Paradise (with Adam and Eve) and the celestial spheres."
"La danse, Bacchante La danse (also known as Bacchante) is an oil painting created circa 1906 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). ""Bacchante"" is a pre-Cubist or Proto-Cubist work executed in a highly personal Divisionist style during the height of the Fauve period. ""Bacchante"" was painted in Paris at a time when Metzinger and Robert Delaunay painted portraits of one another, exhibiting together at the Salon d'Automne and the Berthe Weill gallery. ""Bacchante"" was exhibited in Paris during the spring of 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants (No. 3460), along with ""Coucher de soleil"" and four other"
"The Peasant Dance The Peasant Dance is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in c. 1569. It was looted by Napoleon Bonaparte and brought to Paris in 1808, being returned in 1815. Today it is held by and exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The panel, neither signed nor dated, was painted ""circa"" 1567, at about the same time as ""The Peasant Wedding"". The paintings are the same size and may have been intended as a pair or as part of a series illustrating peasant life. They are the two most outstanding examples"
"1686, when he received the final payment for a painting of Holy Martyrs for the Jesuit college in Trapani. His most celebrated works are the series of 28 paintings for the Church of the Annunziata in Aversa, produced between 1702 and 1703 together with his brother Gennaro. He worked continuously right up to his death in 1710. Giuseppe Simonelli Giuseppe Simonelli (Naples, c.1650–1710) was an Italian painter, active in a late-Baroque style. Born in Naples around 1650, Simonelli was one of the most important painters of the school of Luca Giordano. His early works were often retouched by Giordano to"
"Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath, regarded as the epitome of the ""Renaissance Man"", displaying skills in numerous diverse areas of study. Whilst most famous for his paintings such as the ""Mona Lisa"" and the ""Last Supper"", Leonardo is also renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geology, geometry, hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics, pyrotechnics, and zoology. While the full extent of his scientific studies has only become recognized in the last 150 years, he was, during his lifetime, employed for his engineering and skill of invention. Many of"
"Edgar Degas Edgar Degas ( or ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and"