barbizon school

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barbizon school - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Barbizon school \Bar`bi`zon" school\, or Barbison school
  \Bar`bi`son" school\, . (Painting)
     A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering
     in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau.
     Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic
     tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic
     feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified,
     esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules
     Dupr['e], and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters
     of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as
     Millet and Jules Breton.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]