While the Civil war raged in America, another revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris. Winner of Canada 's Governor General's AwardĪn American Library Association Notable Book of the Year Ross King is the author of the bestselling books Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, as well as the novels Ex-Libris and Domino. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas and against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, would at times resemble a battlefield and as Ross King reveals, it would reorder both history and culture, and resonate around the world. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been quite so controversial. While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment.
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