1860

Showing 2 artworks from 1860

Landscape · Hudson River School

Twilight in the Wildnerness

Frederic Edwin Church

1860 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Not a single figure anywhere in it. Church painted this burning sky in 1860, and people have read the Civil War into it since.

★ 6.8

History painting · Impressionism

Young Spartans Exercising

Edgar Degas

1860 · National Gallery, London

Spartan girls taunt the boys into wrestling, and Degas made the bodies awkward rather than ideal, which is not how history painting was done.

★ 6.1