Word: thorvaldsen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most tumultuous epochs in the history of European painting. The assembled works provide an overview of the transition that was taking place across the Western world from traditional eighteenth century portraiture, through a school of the national landscape, to proto-Impressionsim. Kobke's Copy of Eckersberg's Portrait of Thorvaldsen (1828) boasts an intense dramatic tone, vaguely reminiscent of David or other French portraitists of the era. Kyhn's landscapes suggest the influence of Corot. To complete the simultaneous development, Kroyer's blurry seascape in Self-Potrait Painting on Skagen Beach (1907) has overtones of similar works by Monet...
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