The lecture discussed Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists from the late 19th century, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eadweard Muybridge, Auguste Rodin, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne. Key works mentioned were Monet's Impression: Sunrise and Haystacks, Degas' Dance Studio of the Opera and Place de La Concorde, Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Muybridge's Horse in Motion, Rodin's Monument to Balzac and Walking Man, Gauguin's The Birth of Christ and Yellow Christ,