European Painting and Sculpture After 1800: Mfa Highlights (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780878468409)

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, houses an internationally renowned collection of modern European painting and sculpture, including such masterpieces as Renoir's "Dance at Bougival," Gauguin's "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?," Degas' "Little Dancer" and Turner's "Slave Ship," as well as the largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet outside France. European Painting and Sculpture after 1800: MFA Highlights features these well-known and much-loved works, organized into thematic chapters discussing the major art movements represented in the collection, with an introduction that describes the major phenomena that helped chart the course of art in the 19th and 20th centuries. In all, more than 100 highlights from this impressive collection are illustrated and discussed, each testifying to the richness and complexity of European art in the modern era.

Author: Emily Beeny, Marietta Cambareri
ISBN-10: 0878468404
ISBN-13: 9780878468409
Publisher: MFA Publications
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.60d