The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
$16.95
King, Ross
Pap. New York, 2007
Book ID: 72257
Chronicles the decade between two famous exhibitions - the Salon de Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 - set against the splendor of Napoleon III's Second Empire, and its dramatic fall after the Franco-Prussian War, and the birth of Impressionism as reflected through two very different artists, Meissonier and Manet.
448 pp., 16 color illus.
