Chiara Di Stefano

Captivating artworks by renowned painters including Seurat and Signac are explored alongside pieces by lesser-known Neo-Impressionists, such as Anna Boch. This catalogue accompanies the National Gallery's first-ever exhibition devoted to the vibrant Neo-Impressionist movement. Organised thematically, the book interweaves the works of French, Belgian, and Dutch artists, painted from 1886—the year in which Seurat established the Pointillist movement—to the early...

The extraordinary story behind Degas's groundbreaking painting of the African-American circus performer Miss La La. Edgar Degas's Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) is one of only two paintings by the artist representing people of colour. Miss La La, born Anna Albertine Olga Brown to a white Prussian mother and African-American father, was a renowned performer of extraordinary...

An accessible introduction to American painter Winslow Homer, examining his work through the lens of conflict. A fresh exploration of the work of iconic American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) through the lens of conflict, a recurring theme in his prolific career. A persistent fascination with struggle permeates Homer’s art—from emblematic images of the Civil War and Reconstruction to dazzling tropical...

A celebration of Renoir's imagery of love in all its guises: from affection and friendship to flirtation, courtship and parenthood. More than any of his contemporaries, Renoir was committed to chronicling love and friendship. Whether on Parisian street corners or in sun-dappled woodlands, he understood that emotion could be as fleeting and blinding as his other great subject, sunlight itself....