Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art: Era of Impressionism October 20, 2010

Janetta Rebold Benton, Distinguished Professor of Art History and Director of the Pforzheimer Honors College, Pace University.

Art History 201 offers insight into global masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting created from prehistory to our own day. This fall, the artistic styles known as Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Art Nouveau in Western Europe (approximately 1800 to 1900) are studied and compared with contemporaneous creations throughout the world. Nineteenth-century marvels range from a chocolate factory in France, to sculpture in Africa, to Fabergé's exquisite eggs in Russia, to a palace in Thailand.

This Week's Topic:

October 20
Impressionism: Monet, Renoir, and Rodin in France; Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany; Sculpture in Africa; Painting in China; Shaker Architecture in America

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