50 Impressionist Paintings that Changed Art Forever (Image Gallery)
Claude Monet was an impressionist painter who almost went blind. His sight deteriorated so much he could not distinguish colours or shapes for ...
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From the 1860s, a group of young avant-garde artists in <anchor>Paris</anchor> forged an entirely new style of painting, one that came to be known as impressionism. In this gallery, we present 50 paintings that made a major contribution to changing both the conservative art world and public taste so that artistic conventions could be broken by artists now free to express themselves as they wished. From Claude Monet to Paul Gauguin, these men and women, chose new subjects, colours, and techniques to create an art style that remains one of the most popular ever produced anywhere.
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In the antiquity, the statue represented an attendant of the original god Mithras and would have held a torch, but in the 18th century, the arms were restored with attributes of the Trojan prince Paris. Discovered outside Rome in 1785 CE...](/image/4806/paris/) [![Viking Raids on Paris](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/8848.jpg?v=1708466951)\
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Throughout the 9th century CE, Viking raids on the region of Francia (roughly modern-day France) increased in frequency, destabilizing the region, and terrorizing the populace. The raids seem to have been inspired by the death of the Holy...](/Viking_Raids_on_Paris/) [![Treaty of Paris of 1783](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18591.jpg?v=1725684244-1709713544)\
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**Treaty of Paris of 1783**\
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The Treaty of Paris, signed on 3 September 1783 by representatives from Great Britain and the United States, was the peace agreement that formally ended the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and recognized the United States as an independent...](/Treaty_of_Paris_of_1783/) [![Oenone](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2134.jpg?v=1643824811)\
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**Oenone**\
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Oenone was a nymph in Greek Mythology, the daughter of the river god Cebren and sister of the nymph Asterope/Hesperia. She was given the gift of prophecy by Rhea (mother of the gods) and the gift of healing by Apollo. Her name comes from...](/Oenone/) [![The Paris Impressionist Exhibitions, 1874-86](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15595.png?v=1712999463)\
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**The Paris Impressionist Exhibitions, 1874-86**\
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The impressionist exhibitions in Paris through the final quarter of the 19th century were organised by a group of avant-garde artists who struggled to have their innovative works accepted by the art establishment. Although ridiculed by many...](/article/2000/the-paris-impressionist-exhibitions-1874-86/) [![Louis IX and Capetian Politics at Paris' Sainte-Chapelle](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13177.jpg?v=1664719265)\
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**Louis IX and Capetian Politics at Paris' Sainte-Chapelle**\
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The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris was originally consecrated as a private royal chapel in 1248 during the reign of King Louis IX of France (r. 1226-1270), who was known in life as rex christianissimus ('most Christian king') and canonized in death...](/article/2069/louis-ix-and-capetian-politics-at-paris-sainte-cha/) [![September Massacres](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16422.jpg?v=1725556866-1663920962)\
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The September Massacres refers to a series of mass killings that took place in the prisons of Paris between 2 and 7 September 1792, during the French Revolution (1789-99). Sometimes known as the first Terror, the massacres saw between 1,100...](/September_Massacres/) [![Paris Observatory](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18040.png?v=1697739887-1697739923)\
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An 18th-century engraving of the Paris Observatory, founded in 1667. Image taken from Wolf, Charles J. E. (1902) Histoire de l’Observatoire de Paris de sa fondation a 1793.](/image/18040/paris-observatory/) [![Paris Parlement Session in 1787](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15688.jpg?v=1719559444)\
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The extraordinary session of the Parlement of Paris on 19 November 1787 at the Palais de Justice.\
Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.](/image/15688/paris-parlement-session-in-1787/) [![Paris & Oenone](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11969.jpg?v=1719559446)\
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Mantlepiece with relief of Paris and Oenone, 1738 CE, made by Jean Baptiste Xavery for the principal room of the house at 48 Rapenburg in Leiden, where Diederick, Baron van Leyden, livedRijkmuseum, Amsterdam.](/image/11969/paris--oenone/)**1** [2](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/paris/?page=2) [3](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/paris/?page=3) [4](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/paris/?page=4) [5](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/paris/?page=5) [Next ›](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/paris/?page=2) [Last »](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/paris/?page=5)

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