Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death.
Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japonisme was first described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872.
Louise Catherine Breslau was a German-born Swiss painter,who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris,and exhibited at the salon of the SociétéNationale des Beaux-Arts,where she became a respected colleague of noted figures such as Edgar Degas and Anatole France.
Théodule-Augustin Ribot was a French realist painter and printmaker.
François Bonvin was a French realist painter.
An atelier is the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts or an architect,where a principal master and a number of assistants,students,and apprentices can work together producing fine art or visual art released under the master's name or supervision.
Peter Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur,a bimonthly magazine for collectors of representational painting,sculpture,drawings and prints—both historical and contemporary. From 2003 until 2006,Trippi was director of New York City's Dahesh Museum of Art,the only institution in the United States devoted to 19th- and early 20th-century European academic art.
Donald Adamson,is a British literary scholar,philosopher and historian.
Albert Boime,was an American art historian and author of more than 20 art history books and numerous academic articles. He was a professor of art history at the University of California,Los Angeles for three decades,until his death.
James Dudley Andrew is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University,where he has taught since the year 2000. Before moving to Yale,he taught for thirty years at the University of Iowa. Andrew has been called,on the occasion of one of his invited lecture series,"one of the most influential scholars in the areas of theory,history and criticism". He particularly specializes in world cinema,film theory and aesthetics,and French cinema. He has also written on Japanese cinema,especially the work of Kenji Mizoguchi. He has been given a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. In 2011,he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Achievement Award. Also he has been honored in some countries where his works has been translated and used as textbook in the field. In December 2020,University of Tehran held a session in honor of Dudley Andrew with his presence as the keynote speaker. In this session Nadia Maftouni called Andrew a successful scholar in forming a whole new academic field. Dudley Andrew is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale.
Jules Adler was a French painter,named «le peintre des humbles»by Louis Vauxcelles,a painter of labour,strikes and working people.
Theodore Franklin Reff is Professor Emeritus of European Painting and Sculpture,1840–1940 at Columbia University.
Colin Barry Bailey is a British art historian and museum director. Bailey is currently the Director of the Morgan Library &Museum in New York City. He is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art,specifically on the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Elizabeth Gilmore Holt was an American art historian.
Philippe Burty was a French art critic. He contributed to the popularization of Japonism and the etching revival,supported the Impressionists,and published the letters of Eugène Delacroix.
Artistic Japan was a magazine of Japanese art,published by German-born French art dealer Siegfried Bing. It ran for thirty-six monthly issues from 1888 to 1891 in French,English,and German editions and contributed to a revival of Japonism.
Charles Léon Bonvin was a French watercolor artist known for genre painting,realist still life and delicate and melancholic landscapes.
Gerald "Jerry" Martin AckermanOAL was an American art historian and educator. Ackerman was Professor of Art History Emeritus at Pomona College. He was a leading authority on the art of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Charles Bargue.
Gary TinterowOAL is an American art historian and curator. A specialist on 19th-century French art,Tinterow is currently Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair of the Museum of Fine Arts,Houston.
Henri Dorra was an Egyptian-born American art historian and educator. A specialist on Symbolism in French art,Dorra was Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California,Santa Barbara.
