-
Charles Dickens (English 1812-1870). Novel set in Victorian England in a time of industrial change and urbanization including themes of social mobility, the plight of the weak, wealth, and morality.
-
Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was conceived as a temporary building; originally built in Hyde Park, then moved to southeast London (Sydenham) where it burned down in 1936.
-
Designed by Jean-Marie Viel (French 1796–1863) for the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1855. It was demolished in 1897 to make way for the Grand Palais, erected for the International Exposition in Paris in 1900.
-
Rosa Bonheur (French 1822-1899). Female painter of animals and landscapes in the Realist tradition. This painting brought her international recognition.
-
Gustave Flaubert (French 1821-80). His first novel that many consider the template for the modern novel. The novel challenges middle class ideals and involves superficial romance and marriage, disillusionment, adultery, shame and despair.
-
Designed by Thomas Crawford (American 1814–1857). Commissioned, cast, and constructed between 1854-1862. Crawford died before it was completed and placed atop the dome of the United States Capitol building.
-
One of many William Morris designs used for furnishings and home decor in an effort to provide "art for all." Morris started the Arts & Crafts movement and later lectured that "any decoration is futile ... when it does not remind you of something beyond itself'."
-
Louisa May Alcott (American 1832–1888). Novel about the four March sisters growing up while their father is away during the Civil War. Involves poverty, women's roles, coming of age, romance, illness, and death.
-
Johannes Brahams (German 1833-1897). Composer and pianist.
https://archive.org/details/BrahamsHungarianDanceNo.5 -
Leo Tolstoy (Russian 1828-1910). Epic work detailing and discussing the French invasion of Russia and its aftermath from the viewpoint of several Russian aristocratic families.
-
Ilya Repin (Russian 1844-1930). This is the painter's breakout work; focused on physical labor of the common man. Toiling men are represented as diverse individuals. Focus on reality and the inner life of real people and situations.
-
Winslow Homer (American 1836-1910).
-
Claude Monet (French 1840-1926). Impressionist.
-
Camille Pissarro (French 1830-1903). Impressionist and neo-impressionist.
-
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian 1840-1893). Composer.
https://archive.org/details/TCHAIKOVSKY1812Overture-Rodzinski-NEWTRANSFER -
Georges Seurat (French 1859–1891). Post-impressionist known for technique of pointillism.
-
Constructed between 1875-1886 by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (French 1834-1904)
-
Built in Washington D.C. between 1871-1888. Designed by Alfred B. Mullet to house the Departments of State, War, and Navy.
-
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch 1853-1890). Post-impressionisst.
-
Auguste Rodin (French 1840-1917). Plaster cast of two figures from his famous "The Gates of Hell."
-
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French 1864-1901). Art nouveau.
-
John Phillip Sousa (American 1854-1932).
https://archive.org/details/StarsAndStripesForever -
Anton Checkhov (Russian 1860-1904). Playwrite and physician writes about unhappy but realistic people with frustrated hopes contemplating their sense of an unfulfilled life.
-
Jean Sibelius (Finnish 1865-1957). Composer.
https://archive.org/details/SibeliusFinlandiaOp.26 -
Built for Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris on the site of the demolished Palais de l'Industrie. Collaboratively designed in 1896 by Henri Deglane, Albert Louvet, Albert Louvet, and Charles Girault (project coordinator).
