19th century  

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L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1820s), woodblock printing by Hokusai

Edgar Allan Poe is an icon of 19th century literature

The 20th century was scandalized when Freud implied that all of human behaviour was influenced by sex, much as Darwin had implied that humans were descendant from primates in the 19th century.

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Art and culture

• History of subcultures in the 19th century

Literature

• 19th century in literature

Art

• 19th century art

Painters

The Realism and Romanticism of the early 19th century gave way to Impressionism in the later half of the century, with Paris being the dominant art capital of the world.

19th century painters included:

• Eugène Delacroix
• Edvard Munch
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Théodore Géricault
• Vincent van Gogh
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• Édouard Manet
• Claude Monet
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Joseph Mallord William Turner
• William Morris

Births

Deaths

See also

• Belle Époque

See also

• Victorian Era
• France in the nineteenth century
• Russian history, 1855–1892
• Mid-nineteenth century Spain
• Capitalism in the nineteenth century
• 19th-century philosophy
• Nineteenth century theatre
• 19th century in film