Study guide

Romanticism

An artwork-by-artwork guide to Romantic art, 1760s–1860s, compiled from museum collection records.

From the 1760s to the 1860s, painters and sculptors in Spain, France, Britain, Germany and the United States turned from calm, rule-bound classicism to feeling, imagination, nature and the news of their own day. This section follows them through sixty-four works, with the facts of each object drawn from museum collection records.

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Contents

• The Dark Side of Reason
• Goya, Witness
• Painting the Headlines
• Passion and the Exotic
• Britain: Weather and Light
• Germany and the North: Nature as Scripture
• America: Wilderness and Nation

Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)