Paris in the Age of Revolution: There’s More to French Art than Impressionism

Reunion Lecture June 13, 2014 - Dartmouth College Paris in the Age of Revolution: There’s More to French Art than Impressionism Katie Hornstein, Assistant Professor of Art History Filene Auditorium, Moore The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars brought great changes to the arts in France and marked the emergence of Romanticism in French painting. Professor Hornstein will explore artists who were trying to figure out how to make truly modern art in the early 1800s, long before the Impressionists.