Cistercian architecture is a typical architecture of the buildings of the monastic order of the Cistercians, founded in 1098 in Cîteaux, France, by a group of…
The aspiration to a dimension of religious life made up of prayer and contemplation, in opposition to the Cluniac model, gave birth to the desire for…
The first period opens with a social inequality: wealth is in the hands of a few (large monarchies with palaces).Despite this, the crisis is overcome with…
Rococo was born in France at the court of Louis XV, Palace of Versailles, then France became the capital of art. Characteristics: refined, elegant and bright.…
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen into a bourgeois family and he spent his adolescence reading the works chosen by the romantic generation, from Cervantes to…
Realism develops in the second half of the 19th century.The novels of Realism are also called “bourgeois” because the protagonists are no longer heroes, but ordinary…
In France and Belgium the term with which the modernist movement is indicated is that of Art Nouveau, to indicate precisely a new art, rich in…
Art nouveau was born in the last decades of the 19th century and in the years preceding the First World War, this current develops in a…
Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte -> islet on the Seine where the aristocrats all dressed in the latest fashion spent their daysThis work…
Pointillism is a pictorial movement or artistic current that developed in France around 1885, in fact it is also known by the French term Pointillisme. The…