Barbizon School

Barbizon School
/bahr"beuh zon'/
a group of French painters of the mid-19th century whose landscapes and genre paintings depicted peasant life and the quality of natural light on objects.
[named after Barbizon, village near Paris, where the painters gathered]

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  • Barbizon school — Bar bi zon school, or Barbison school Bar bi son school, . (Painting) A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Barbizon School — [bär′bə zän΄; ] Fr [ bȧr bē zōn′] n. a group of French romantic landscape painters (including Millet, Corot, Théodore Rousseau, and Daubigny) who settled in Barbizon, a village in N France, in the mid 19th cent …   English World dictionary

  • Barbizon School — /bahr beuh zon / a group of French painters of the mid 19th century whose landscapes and genre paintings depicted peasant life and the quality of natural light on objects. [named after Barbizon, village near Paris, where the painters gathered] *… …   Universalium

  • Barbizon school — The Barbizon school (circa 1830 ndash;1870) of painters is named after the village of Barbizon near Fontainebleau Forest, France, where the artists gathered.The Barbizon painters were part of a movement towards realism in art which arose in the… …   Wikipedia

  • Barbizon School —    Situated near the Fontainebleau forest, outside of Paris, Barbizon was a favorite gathering place of landscape painters during the mid 19th century. The style of these painters of the Barbizon School was derived especially from that of camille …   France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present

  • Barbizon School — 19th century group of French landscape painters who worked chiefly in the village of Barbizon (northern France) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Barbizon School — /ˈbabəzɒn skul/ (say bahbuhzon skoohl) noun a group of French landscape painters of the late 19th century, including Théodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, who worked chiefly at Barbizon, a village in northern France …  

  • Barbizon School —  Group of French landscape painters, among them Millet, Daubigny, and Rousseau …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • American Barbizon school — The American Barbizon School was a group of painters and style partly influenced by the French Barbizon school. American Barbizon artists concentrated on painting rural landscapes often including peasants or farm animals.William Morris Hunt was… …   Wikipedia

  • Barbizon — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Barbizon País …   Wikipedia Español

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