X-tra Sirroco: Impresionismo (Spanish Edition)

Nathalia Brodskaya has been a curator at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg since 1961. In this beautifully illustrated book, she brings her wide experience with art to bear on Impressionism. She analyzes its origins in Paris in the eventful years leading up to 1874, when a group of artists broke away from neo-Renaissance painting to record what they actually saw, the immediate “impressions” on their eyes. This thoughtful, informed history of the movement also examines Impressionism's influence on later schools of art, along with profiles of its greatest talents, including Renoir, Monet, Degas, and many others.