The connotations of the word “realism” in French literature are so varied that ... these gentlemen exercised a remarkable ingenuity in the art of evasion and denial, which is responsible ...

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter, best known for his realist depictions of the human figure set ... Bouguereau’s life-sized oil paintings of mythological narratives were highly detailed ...

Jean Baptiste Greuze was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and history paintings. Greuze’s work was known ... as well as for its formal combination of Rococo and Dutch ...

The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...

In the 1930s, the French realist filmmakers found a way to speak to and fight against the rising authoritarianism in their country and the world. There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series ...