Dr. Claire Black McCoy
Géricault’s massive canvas takes its format from history painting, but its subject is ripped from the headlines.
Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
Daumier's Rue Transnonain stands alone for its brutal tone and unflinching commentary on a Parisian uprising that had occurred on April 13, 1834.
Daumier, Rue Transnonain
Delacroix created dramatic images with an intensity of color and expression that no one else could match.
Eugène Delacroix, an introduction
In the decades following the French Revolution, this new movement began to flourish in France.
Romanticism in France
They wanted an epic Biblical image, or one from a Greek myth. He gave them a painting of a modern-day funeral.
Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans
In style and story, this rigorously organized canvas looked back to antiquity; it soon became an icon of Revolution.
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