Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism Publisher / Buxton Contemporary later composed by Felix Mendelssohn

later composed by Felix Mendelssohn

with a history touched by Etruscan

' Sophie Van der Linden

it can be a stressful time of invisibility and vulnerability

each image stirs a different mood

Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism Publisher / Buxton Contemporary later composed by Felix MendelssohnImpressionism remains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists: douard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro. But as Sebastian Smee shows in Paris in Ruins, a book of great narrative sweep and vivid detail, Impressionism was a complex reaction to an age of violence and war. From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, the Terrible Year, Paris and its people were cut off,