With Chase, colleagues, and their students, he laid the foundations of American painting in the 20th century. But the nudes got him into trouble!
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Since they were first shown at the end of the 1800s, Tissot’s 350+ paintings of the life of Christ have been controversial, but much loved.
A major influence in Italian art in the 1800s, he was highly skilled in telling stories, and solved problems which had troubled the Masters before.
He built his career from scratch three times, but today is known for his paintings of fashionable women. There is more to his art than that.
With his Salon style and fascination in mediaeval history, did he make history painting history?
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Balanced explorations of the play of light inside rooms, and the glorious colours of the intense Norwegian summer.
His history paintings make it look as if he was actually present at the time. Just how accurate were they?
Unique paintings of the ancient history of France, in response to dreadful defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
A fuller account of one of the arch-enemies of the Impressionists. Was he so bad after all?
The Eclectic Light Company 