The Life and Letters of George Bancroft

The Life and Letters of George Bancroft
Author: Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1908
Genre:
ISBN:

George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. - Wikipedia.

Manet/Velázquez

Manet/Velázquez
Author: Gary Tinterow
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2003
Genre: Painting, French
ISBN: 1588390403

Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.