It certainly would not be a stretch to dub this most pivotal time in history "the age of genius." After all, it was during the latter half of the nineteenth century that the early versions of the luxuries that people today cannot live without today came into being:the telephone, the phonograph, the still camera, and the motion picture camera.It was a significant time in virtually every artistic genre as well.The literary world was flooded with talent--Melville, Dickens, Twain, Dostoyevsky, Chopin--just to name a few.Jaw-dropping architecture was springing up everywhere, from the world's first skyscraper in Chicago to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.In music, there was Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Debussy, Puccini, Verdi, and many others. Even with the likes of Darwin and Freud making their marks ...more >>at this time, perhaps the most dramatic and momentous achievements occurred in painting. R.G. Collingwood said that the change that came over painting during the latter half of the nineteenth "was nothing short of revolutionary,” and who could argue?Realists, Impressionists, Expressionists, and Post-Impressionists such as Courbet, Church, Manet, Monet, Homer, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Cezanne all created some of the most celebrated paintings in history.The achievements in sculpture cannot be ignored, either.Rodin’s creations convincingly take the viewer back to the time of Dante, and Bartholdi’s massive “Liberty Enlightening the World” is nothing short of sublime.The events chosen for this timeline barely scratch the surface of the myriad artistic achievements that occurred during this period and offer the viewer a mere glimpse into the vast panorama that was the world of art in the late nineteenth century.