Source: Berthe Morisot, The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne, 1872, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection1970.17.160, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The phrase “bourgeois revolution ...
When Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, the rising middle-class of the towns constituted its revolutionary element. It had conquered a recognized position within mediaeval feudal organization, but ...