From Impresstionism to Early Modernism

• Prologue. The Journey of Light
• 1. The Body: More Human, More Real
  • The Academic Nude
  • Variations on Bathers
• 2. Portraits and Personalities: Modern Faces
  • Édouard Manet’s Innovation
  • Women in Nineteenth-Century France
• 3. In Nature: The Eternal Moment
  • The Timeless Landscape of the Barbizon School
  • Beyond Impressionism
• 4. From City to Country: Inspiration from Contrasts
  • Paris, Symbol of Modernization
  • Leisure and Rest in the Suburbs
  • France’s Land and Nature: The Countryside
• 5. By the Water: Reflections Like a Mirror
• Epilogue. The Legacy of Light