#historical
A cross-section of the catalog tagged historical — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Painting 5
- Photography 2
- Mixed Media & Experimental 1
Styles tagged #historical
8 styles
American Realism (Hopper)
Edward Hopper is the canonical American Realist of the twentieth century, and his particular contribution is a vocabulary for painted lon…
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Cyanotype Photogram
A cyanotype is a 19th-century photographic printing process — paper coated with ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, expos…
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Cyanotype
The cyanotype process was invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 and used almost immediately by the botanist Anna Atkins to produce Photog…
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Dutch Golden Age (Vermeer)
The Dutch Golden Age (roughly 1620–1680) produced an unusually coherent body of small, intimate, light-driven paintings. Within that move…
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Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a small group of British painters — initially Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Willia…
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Renaissance Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro — literally "light-dark" in Italian — names the late-Renaissance and Baroque practice of modeling figures with strong contras…
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Tintype / Wet Plate
The wet-plate collodion process was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851 and was the dominant photographic process from roughly 185…
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Ukiyo-e Woodblock
Ukiyo-e — "pictures of the floating world" — is the dominant Japanese print tradition from roughly 1660 to 1900. The images were carved i…
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