The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn
This period, in its specific sense, refers to a mid-nineteenth century artistic movement characterized by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way.
Artists attempted to portray the lives, appearances, problems, customs, and mores of the middle and lower classes, of the unexceptional, the ordinary, the humble, and the unadorned. Indeed, they conscientiously set themselves to reproducing all the hitherto-ignored aspects of contemporary life and society—its mental attitudes, physical settings, and material conditions.
The 10 greatest painters of the Realism period were:
The 10 greatest paintings of the Realism period were: