War and Peace
An epic of 1812 in which history is made of private lives, the benchmark novel
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Style
- Realism — Paint what you see: peasants, labourers and the provinces at the scale of history painting
- Century
- 19th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
- 1889 The Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh · Post-Impressionism · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
- 1893 The Scream — Edvard Munch · Expressionism · Kristiania (Oslo)
- 1862 Les Misérables — Victor Hugo · Romanticism · Guernsey, Hauteville House
- 1870–1873 Barge Haulers on the Volga — Ilya Repin · Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) · Saint Petersburg
- 1857 The Gleaners — Jean-François Millet · Realism · Barbizon
- 1856–1859 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo — Utagawa Hiroshige · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- 1856 Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert · Realism · Croisset, near Rouen
What was happening in the world
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships
- 1861 Unification of Italy
- 1876 Invention of the telephone
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes
- 1853–1856 Crimean War