This pleasure is increased by the realization that the show is work only from the Renaissance to the Impressionist period.

The harmonic effect is therefore without the strong forward movement of diatonic music, and composers have used whole-tone harmony (particularly in the Impressionist period) to give tranquil, passive moods, and delicate colourings:

French composers of the Impressionist period such as Ravel and Debussy wrote suites for piano.

It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during the 1870s and 1880s.

Toward the end of the Impressionist period, she began to avoid Degas, against whose "wicked tongue" she was unable to defend herself.

The Impressionist period is represented by seven Degas drawings and pastels, seven Cézannes, four Seurats, three Gauguins and three van Goghs, all first-rate.

In recent years he has specialized in the literature of the Impressionist period, including the entire repertoire of Debussy and Ravel.

This show of 50 etchings and 31 lithographs ranges from his early work, when he followed the realism of Courbet, to his later Impressionist period, when he viewed paintings more as "arrangement" or harmonies than factual reports.

By presenting his works in chronological order, the Grand Palais carefully plots his evolution from the passionate oils of his youth, through his Impressionist period, to the brighter more abstract and geometric shapes of his final years.