More than other painters, the Impressionists wanted to shake off the dust of the studio, and swarmed the noisy streets of Paris, filling the cafés and living in garrets and humble little dwellings on the hill of Montmartre, which still seemed like the countryside at the time, its slopes covered with vineyards and vegetable gardens. Nor did they limit themselves to the city, planting their easels in the clearings of the forest of Fontainebleau, on the coast of Normandy, in the rustic villages in the Oise Valley and in Bougival and Argenteuil on the banks of the Seine. Like their Naturalist friends Zola and Maupassant, they liked to mix with the locals so they could experience the places directly, painting everywhere, even on a boat, like the one where Monet had his floating studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This book maps out a topography of Impressionism, illustrated with paintings by its artists and a rich selection of historical photographs, going back to the places and atmospheres of an extraordinary artistic movement.
Introduction
\nGalleries and Exhibitions
\nCafés and Entertainment Venues
\nThe Railway
\nÎle-De-France
\nNormandy and Brittany
\nProvence
\nThe Final Journey
\nThe Artists
\nNotes
INTRODUCTION 7
\nGALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS 11
\nPère Tanguy’s Shop 12
\nThe Gallery of Durand–Ruel 16
\nAmbroise Vollard’s Gallery 20
\nThe Palais de l’Industrie 25
\nNadar’s Studio 32
\nCAFÉS AND ENTERTAINMENT VENUES 41
\nCafè Guerbois 42
\nCafé de la Nouvelle Athènes 45
\nThe Moulin de la Galette 49
\nLe Folies-Bergère 54
\nThe Cirque Fernando 59
\nThe Opera 63
\nThe Longchamp Racecourse 72
\nTHE RAILWAY 77
\nThe Saint-Lazare Station 78
\nÎLE-DE-FRANCE 85
\nThe Banks of the Seine: Argenteuil, Bougival, Marly-le-Roi 86
\nLouveciennes 100
\nThe Forest of Fontainebleau 102
\nThe Oise Valley: Pontoise, Auvers–sur–Oise 108
\nNORMANDY AND BRITTANY 113
\nGiverny 114
\nThe Estuary of the Seine: Le Havre, Honfleur 120
\nPont-Aven and Le Pouldu 130
\nPROVENCE 137
\nAix-en-Provence 138
\nArles 142
\nTHE FINAL JOURNEY 147
\nMontmartre Cemetery 148
\nTHE ARTISTS 155
\nNotes 159
\nPhoto Credits 160<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":50858,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50857","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-giorgio-villani","8":"publisher-officina-libraria","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n