Age of ExplorationAcademic Art
Academic Art
Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy
International diplomat to meme-lord
1735 – 1802
Guardian of the old ways
1780 – 1867
"To live so filled with ambition, and at the end, oblivion!"
1858 – 1884
Creativity vs the Académie
1823 – 1889
A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price
1857 – 1890
History's high drama
1838 – 1893
Liberty expressed through landscape
1828 – 1901
A merciless teacher trains 2000 young artists
1824 – 1904
Creating beauty by the rules
1825 – 1905
Archeologist, painter, scientist, orphan
1842 – 1910
The worst painter of the 19th century
1836 – 1912
"The world is not big enough for myself and Picasso"
1861 – 1922
Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor
1844 – 1923
Anthropology or exploitation? Portraits of the Māori
1839 – 1926
Have you seen this bat-woman before?
1862 – 1930
