Realism (art movement)
1840–1880 · Event
Courbet and Millet rejected idealised subjects to paint peasants, labourers and ordinary life at full scale, scandalising the Salon and clearing the path to Impressionism.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, France
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
Around 1840
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)