Events from the year 1840inart. March 4 – Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their "Daguerreian Parlor" on Broadway (Manhattan), the world's...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1840. 1840 (MDCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
(2016). British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793–1840. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-17148-5. Archived from the original...
Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful...
The year 1840in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. 27 April – The foundation stone of the new Palace of Westminster...
article is about music-related events in1840. February 11 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris. April 2 – Première of Ferdinand...
article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1840. June – An amnesty to mark the accession of King Frederick William IV of...
(1934–1964) Williams, Orton & Preston; Farmington, Connecticut (1830–1840) Wood Art for Living; Severn, Maryland (2009-Present) Weursch; Fall River, Massachusetts...
The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early ballads, poems and other works in English. Thomas Aird, Orthuriel,...
Events from the year 1840in France. Monarch – Louis Philippe I 20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica. 1 March - Adolphe Thiers...
erotic art can be subjective because it is dependent on context, as perceptions of what is erotic and what is art vary. A sculpture of a phallus in some...
The year 1840in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. William Whewell publishes The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences...
paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of...
"The Work of Artin the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that...
but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form. Visual art can be classified in diverse ways, such as separating fine arts from applied arts; inclusively...
Industrial Revolution. The period from approximately 1760 to between 1820 and 1840 saw the transition to new manufacturing processes from traditional hand production...
[ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃]; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist artist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. It is the largest art museum in the Americas and...
Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 – 14 August 1905) was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life...
(1839–1902), banker in Paris, co-founder of Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, married to Sophie Croizette [fr] Louis Stern (1840–1900), banker in Paris, married...
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in1840. John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore ruins of the Maya civilization including...
Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000 Peck, Amelia. American Revival Styles, 1840–1876. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...
The historical evolution of the nude inart runs parallel to the history of artin general, except for small particularities derived from the different...
Last Night!, Walters Art Museum "Don't Give Up That Ship!", a depiction of the death of Captain James Lawrence, circa 1840, Walters Art Museum 7th Baronet...
19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its...
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