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	Encyclopedia: French painters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The French Renaissance is roughly the period from Charles VIII of France through Henri IV of France and is said to begin with the French invasion of Italy in 1494.
		The latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts.
		The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French revolution, as typified in the structures La Madeleine church (begun in 1763 and finished in1840) which is in the form of a Greek temple and the mammouth Panthéon (1764-1812) which today houses the tombs of great Frenchmen.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/French-painters (3328 words)

	French Art - Genre Painters And Orientalists
		Among French genre painters especially, we find work of extreme, almost distracting variety—from the literary and historic painting of Cogniet to the idylls of Henner—from the tableaux de moeurs of Boilly to the modern classicism of Gérôme—from the still life of Vollon to the orientalism of Decamps and Fromentin.
		The extraordinary command over ways and means, the high level of excellence in the actual workmanship of their profession attained by French artists —thanks to the unrivalled training they receive—increase the difficulty when we come to decide who shall be selected as types where the general standard is so high.
		He is one of the popular portrait painters of the day, delighting to render the robes of the Star of India, or the jewels and soft, shining, silken draperies of beautiful women.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/french-art-18.shtml (6293 words)

	List of painters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eva GonzalÃ¨s ( 1849 - 1883), French painter
		Antonio Mattei, ( 1900 - 1956), U.S. painter
		Claude Monet, ( 1840 - 1926), French painter
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Painters (3128 words)

	French Art - Painters Of The Renaissance
		The earliest known French portrait is that of Le roi Jean (1350-1364), a miniature painted on a figured (gaufré) gold background.
		While a host of nameless painters devote themselves to the illuminating of the manuscripts which, to a great extent, represent French painting at the end of the 15th century.
		Lady Dilke points out that the French painters of the 16th century " laid on their local tint in a solid layer, running " it up to the extreme edge in mass," and on this, when dry, they hatched with the brush point.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27/french-art-6.shtml (4599 words)

	French painter - AskTheBrain.com
		Claude Oscar Monet was a French impressionist painter who brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression.
		But a true realism in portrait painting was achieved only by the painters of the French Academy from the last half of the 17th to the end of the 19th century.
		Other French, German and Russian painters of great stature are too numerous to mention but their skill at capturing the heat of battle is legendary.
	www.askthebrain.com /french_painter-.html (326 words)

	French Art
		The French Renaissance was strongly influenced by the works of the Italians.
		French Fauvisme is a style of painting that flourished in France from 1898 to 1908.
		Cubism is a highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century, and was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Georges Braque in Paris.
	www.uncg.edu /rom/courses/dafein/civ/art.htm (803 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| French connection
		The interweaving of an agrarian reformism, Transcendentalism and individualism in Boston's broader culture was amply reflected in the art that American painters and collectors brought to New England.
		That this was a Bostonian phenomenon, at least at first, was perhaps inevitable: Edith Wharton, a child of both New York and Boston, once complained that she was too smart for the former and too stylish for the latter.
		Over a century later, Erica Hirshler is struck by the continued relevance of this marriage of French art and American ideas: "As we think about cosmpolitanism now, and about what America's role should be, this moment resonates." Of the Royal Academy show, she says.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1524243,00.html?gusrc=rss (1110 words)

	French Women Painters: 1893 Exposition--Part I
		Louise Abbema, a French painter-engraver-sculptor, studied under Chaplin, Henner, and Carolus-Duran.
		The Meeting was purchased by the French government.
		To her, those street boys had "a liveliness and freedom from the artifices" of society that upper-class women did not.
	members.cox.net /academia2/cassatt11.html (575 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Guillaume Apollinaire: The Cubist Painters (University of California Press Oct 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's only book on art, The Cubist Painters, was first published in 1913.
		This essential text in twentieth-century art presents the poet and critic's aesthetic meditations on nine painters: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, and Marcel Duchamp.
		The translator's essay on 'Apollinaire and Cubism' illuminates a number of features of The Cubist Painters, and his account of the genesis of the book and of Apollinaire's revisions of the proofs are particularly valuable."
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/art/apollincubistucalp.html (334 words)

	French art -> The Renaissance on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Francis I employed Francesco Primaticcio of Bologna as artistic director, and a school of French painters worked in an Italianate manner at the palace of Fontainebleau (see Fontainebleau, school of).
		French engraving gained significance in the works of the mannerists Jacques Bellange and Jacques Callot.
		Au revoir, Monsieur Frites; A low-budget French movie about a grim boarding school is the surprise hit of the year.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/french-art_therenaissance.asp (572 words)

	France - detailed map for travel. French impressionist painters. French cuisine. Free pictures, posters, history, ...
		In such moments, the French have thrice heeded the call of charismatic and prestigious leaders (Napoleon I, Napoleon III, and Marshall Pétain) whose temperaments and politics paid short shrift to democracy.
		That victory owes much to the French men and women who have defended freedom and democracy against domestic and foreign foes alike, often at the peril of their lives.
		He is a knowledgeable raconteur who travels from the river's source to its final destination, delving into the history of the French people and reflecting on the current living conditions those whose lives are intimately tied to the river's barges.
	ring.mithec.com /side/france.html (1993 words)

	French Painters Of The Eighteenth Century, Wallace Collections
		Poussin (1594—1665) was a classical painter, he went to Italy for his inspiration, not to nature.
		She was a favourite painter of Marie Antoinette and her court, and lived to hear that many of those heads she had painted had been severed by the guillotine.
		This may be said of all these painters—they are the painters of visions when the heart is young and life is full of joy.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/tate-gallery-3.shtml (2715 words)

	WebMuseum: Impressionism
		The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together independently.
		The established painter Édouard Manet, whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced Monet and others of the group, himself adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873.
		an exhibit hold in the salons of the photographer Nadar and organized by the ``Société anonyme des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs'' [``Anonymous society of painters, sculptors and engravers''], composed of Pissarro, Monet, Sisley, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Guillaumin and Berthe Morisot.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/glo/impressionism (1382 words)

	french.html
		Claude Gellee or Claude Lorrain(e) (1600-82) was a landscape painter whose works exerted an incridible influence in England during the eighteenth century.
		Fragonard, Jean Honore (1732-1806) was a typical painter of gallant and sentimental subjects during reigns of Louis XV and XVI.
		In 1707/8 he moved to the decorative painter Claude Audran, through whom watteau gained access, in Luxembourgh Palace, to the Rubens cycle of the Life of Marie de'Medici, the style of which greatly influenced him.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~rviau/ids/Artworks/french.html (1189 words)

	Notable American Impressionists Painters Represented on AskART.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bridge to French Impressionism from Academism was at the village of Barbizon, near the forest of Fontainebleu, with painters who were active between 1830 and 1880.
		They showed painters how to retrain their eyes to see nature as it was, rather than how it had been customarily painted by many of the earlier practitioners.
		Returning to America, he became a firmly established painter in the Tonalist style, but he was not an enthusiast for Impressionism, which he referred to as a “new fad” and “evil extreme in art.” (Spencer 41).
	www.askart.com /interest/impb1940_1.asp (1950 words)

	Lindsay Snider \| A Lasting Impression: French Painters Revolutionize the Art World \| The History Teacher, 35.1 \| The ...
		During its own time, French Impressionism was viewed as a sweeping revolution in painting, a radical departure from the existing traditions of European art.
		In 1874 this group of young French artists defied the Academie and "[broke] openly with all the traditional conventions," by presenting an independent exhibition of their works.
		The French Impressionists dominated the artistic changes during this revolutionary era of art and passed on its special freshness of vision around the world.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/35.1/snider.html (3763 words)

	Heine and the Salon of 1831
		The French are the chosen people of that religion, for in their tongue are written its first gospels and its first dogma: Paris is the new Jerusalem, and the Rhine is the Jordan which separates the holy land of liberty from the country of the Philistines." [13]
		Additionally, in portraying the French society through the mirror of the exhibition, Heine was undoubtedly aware of his German readers' reception, for Germany had at the time no such public exhibit, with the exception of the court museum in Dresden.
		The French are "soured" on Catholicism, and cannot draw any positive energy from it now; in fact, he claims, The Reapers succeeds to the extent it does because its farmers have abandoned the restrictive bounds of the Church's guidelines.
	www.nthuleen.com /papers/AH350frpaint.html (7252 words)

	french painters : Artwork Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gustave Courbet, French Painter The foremost realist painter of mid-19th-century France, Gustave Courbet came from an affluent family.
		Sent to Paris in 1840 to study law, he defied his father by pursuing a career as an...
		Leading French painters of the period traveled to Rome.....Tour: Seventeenth-Century French Painting..
	www.perfectgallery.co.uk /perfectgallery/french-painters.html (190 words)

	The Barbizon School: Artists and their Works
		They rejected the Academic tradition, abandoning theory in an attempt to achieve a truer representation of life in the countryside, and are part of the French Realist movement.
		Realist painters Jean-Francois Millet and Camille Corot are also sometimes loosely associated with this school.
		The Barbizon School artists are often considered to have sown the seeds of Modernism with their individualism, and were the forerunners of the Impressionists, who took a similar philosophical approach to their art.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /history/barbizon-school.html (136 words)

	ArtLex on Barbizon School
		- A group of naturalist landscape painters who worked in the vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in the 1840s and 1850s.
		Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867) was the founder of the group.
		Daubigny was the first of the plein air painters.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/b/barbizon.html (598 words)

	Daniel Voge French Artist. Order Purchase Online
		PicturialNet is the utmost online expression of modern, contemporary French art, French painting for those of you with discriminating and refined taste for original French Art.
		You don’t need to travel to France to purchase fine French painting from the renowned modern French painters showing their artwork, it is available online for your purchase via credit card on an online secure environment.
		Born in Paris (1936) Daniel Voge is one of the prominent painters today in France.
	www.eplanetshopping.com /picturialnet/French-Artist-Daniel-Voge.html (377 words)

	FRENCH PAINTERS - MEDIA for the ARTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There are ten different color images concentrating on the work of this French painter.;
		Ten color slides detail the work of this French painter with particular emphasis on the painting entitled "The Trojan Woman"
		Ten color slides detail the work of this French painter.; Poussin's famous painting, "The Rape of the Sabine Women," is featured.
	www.art-history.com /acatalog/MEDIA_FOR_THE_ARTS_FRENCH_PAINTERS_821.html (501 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		In 1627 he was invited back to France, where he became First Painter, a position challenged only once, in 1640-1642, when he was brought into an artificial rivalry with Poussin.
		Vouet taught or collaborated with almost all the painters of the next generation in France, notably Le Brun, Le Sueur and Mignard.
		Few of his canvases are signed and dated and many of his decorative schemes have been destroyed; precise attribution is made more difficult because of his prolific output and his extensive use of his workshop to fulfil his numerous commissions.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jan/art0109.html (2564 words)

	French Artists, Painters & Paintings
		French Impressionist Painting by Claude Monet - Breakup of the Ice Near Vetheuil - 1880
		French Impressionist Painting by Claude Monet - Gorge of the Petitailly I - 1897
		French Impressionist Painting by Claude Monet - Gorge of the Petitailly II - 1897
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	French Museums - Musees de France
		In a country so replete with culture, the French enjoy spending many of their weekends in museums, so travelers to France would be well-advised to schedule their forays into this aspect of French culture on weekdays whenever possible, to avoid the crowds.
		Virtual exhibits and biographies of famous French painters, from the 13th century to the present.
		DiscoverFrance.net actively encourages topical submissions from students of French language and culture, educators, seasoned travelers, American expatriates, and natives of France.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/DF_museums.shtml (465 words)

	Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2001: French (FREN)
		The course also features an individual or group research component through which students will be able to practice French in an academic field of their choice.
		The purpose of this course is to study some of the encounters between these painters and their writers.
		The course is open to non-French majors, although a reading knowledge of French is recommended since not all reading selections may be available in translation.
	www.rice.edu /projects/courses/2001fall/FREN.html (769 words)

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