From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists.

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

Historically, especially in late 18th-and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Branagh set the film with late 19th-century costuming and furnishings ; and Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes.

The study of hypnotism subsequently revolved around the fierce debate between Jean-Martin Charcot and Hippolyte Bernheim, the two most influential figures in late 19th-century hypnotism.

Scott's work influenced the late 19th-century children's writer Howard Pyle's book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, which in turn established John as the principal villain within the traditional Robin Hood narrative.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

However, the Great War and its subsequent events were the cataclysmic upheavals that late 19th-century artists such as Brahms had worried about, and avant-gardists had embraced.

The mobile puppet booth of the late 18th-and early 19th-century Punch and Judy glove-puppet show was originally covered in checked bed ticking or whatever inexpensive cloth might come to hand.

This measure, to late 19th-century Catholics, had covered Clement XIV's memory with infamy in his church, and was also quite controversial, with the Catholic Encyclopedia (?

These laws ended the Catholic Church's involvement with many government institutions in late 19th-century France, including schools.

However, by the late 19th-century, " socialism " had come to signify opposition to capitalism and advocacy for an alternative system based on some form of social ownership.

These drugs were legal in late 19th-century England.

* That it derives from the late 19th-century French slang use of the word sabot to describe an unskilled worker, so called due to their wooden clogs or sabots ; sabotage was used to describe the poor quality work which such workers turned out.

Newly created haikai no renga ( of whose hokku, or opening verse, haiku was a late 19th-century revision ) was the favored genre.

For instance, a late 19th-century encyclopedia titled The cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia said that " Chinese Tartary " ( Xinjiang ) was at the time " occupied by a mixed population of Turk, Mongol, and Kalmuk ".

In addition, with late 19th-century concerns about the impact of modern life on the human body, athletics offered hope that neither the individual nor the society was coming apart.

It served as a vital link for trade, commerce and travel that joined the eastern and western halves of the late 19th-century United States.

Later commentators have asserted that Carmen forms the bridge between the tradition of opéra comique and the realism or verismo that characterised late 19th-century Italian opera.

Jupiter ( late 1st century AD ), with 19th-century reconstructions of drapery, sceptre, eagle, and Victoria ( mythology ) | Victory

Efforts to preserve the region as a national park commenced in the late 19th-century and in 1929, Grand Teton National Park was established, protecting the major peaks of the Teton Range.

In the 19th-century depiction by James William Edmund Doyle, Edward the Martyr is offered a cup of mead by Ælfthryth, widow of the late Edgar, unaware that her attendant is about to murder him.

Scott also shunned the late 16th-century depiction of Robin as a dispossessed nobleman ( the Earl of Huntingdon ).

One late 18th century artistic depiction shows a range of buildings relentless in their uniformity.

An early 20th century depiction of Saint Columba's miracle at the gate of King Bridei I of the Picts | Bridei's fortress, described in Adomnán's late 7th century Vita Columbae

Theotokos and Jesus | The Child, the late 17th century Russian icons | Russian icon by Karp Zolotaryov, with a notably realistic depiction of faces and clothing.

In the late 1970s, Zündel, as the group's spokesman, issued press releases protesting the NBC Holocaust miniseries for its depiction of Germans.

Installation of the bronze reliefs on the pedestal did not begin until late 1849, when John Edward Carew's depiction of the death of Nelson was put in place on the side facing Whitehall.

Renaissance-era depiction of a joust in traditional or " high " armour, based on then-historical late medieval armour ( Paulus Hector Mair, de arte athletica, 1540s )

The invention of a comprehensive mathematically based system of linear perspective is a defining achievement of the early 15th century Italian Renaissance in Florence, but Gothic painting had already made great progress in the naturalistic depiction of distance and volume, though it did not usually regard them as essential features of a work if other aims conflicted with them, and late Gothic sculpture was increasingly naturalistic.

A romanticised Victorian era | Victorian depiction of a member of the clan in a late 17th century dress by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845.

Rather than for its largely predictable plot, the novel is remarkable for its depiction of late 1960s student life.

However, particularly in the late 1950s, the depiction of the monarch-now Elizabeth II-on Australian definitives became confined to the base domestic letter rate and the preceding minor values.

Because of its depiction of teenage rebellion, drug and alcohol use by junior high school students, its depiction of suburban life in the late 1970s, and a rock music soundtrack featuring such bands as Cheap Trick and The Cars, Over the Edge has achieved cult film status, and was an inspiration for the music video for the song " Smells Like Teen Spirit " by Nirvana.

Harrie Irving Hancock ( 1866 ?- 1922 ) was an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's literature and juveniles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as having written a fictional depiction of a German invasion of the USA.

The late 1960s saw painters turning to surface inflection, deep space depiction, and painterly touch and paint handling merging with the language of color.

Critics argue that these books represent either a late period of eccentricity, or puzzling disappointments, while others claim that Tintin's shift represents a more complex depiction of his character.

In late November 2006, controversy arose over a Madden NFL 07 commercial, when Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark complained about his depiction in the commercial.

One of Australia's most important artists of the twentieth century, Smith was best known for her modernist depiction of a Sydney cafeteria, paintings of the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it was being built, and her late indoor scenes of doorways and windows where yellow is usually the dominant colour.

Blue and white porcelain-ware with a depiction of a Chinese dragon from the late Ming Dynasty

Postcard depiction of the plant circa late 1930s.

16th century Korean turtle ship in a depiction dating to 1795 based on a contemporary, late 18th century model.

Set during the late 1970s, the series is regarded as an accurate depiction of life during that time for soldiers in the army.