nineteenth-century art
How Artists Depicted Handcrafted Baskets and Straw in Village Life
Handcrafted baskets appear so often in paintings of village life that it is easy to overlook their importance. Yet these woven…
Biography: Martín Rico
Few nineteenth-century painters are as closely associated with a single city as Martín Rico is with Venice. Although he was born…
Inspiration: “The Milkmaid,” by Peter Fendi
Peter Fendi’s The Milkmaid from 1830 is not a peaceful celebration of orderly rural labor. It is something more human and…
Biography: Alexandre Calame
The biography of Alexandre Calame begins in the dramatic landscapes of early nineteenth-century Switzerland, where towering mountains and icy rivers shaped…
