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Impressionism began at 7:35 a.m. on Nov. 13, 1872
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Apr 9, 15:57 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Apr 9, 15:57 -0400
It is one thing to deduce time and location from a photograph of the sun or moon. But how about a painting? Some art historians mark the beginning of Impressionism with Claude Monet's painting Impression, Soleil Levant. An astronomer at Texas State University has done some clever detective work, using the sun's position, tides, and weather to pinpoint the window from which Monet painted this significant work, and the most likely date and time. http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2014/September-2014/Olson090214.html Don Seltzer
