Art & Design Styles: Romanticism

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

Augustus John & the First Crisis of Brilliance tells the story of a remarkable generation and its artistic achievements. Accompanying Piano Nob...

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (17411825), one of eight...

Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, ...

A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary British artist William Blake Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique...

This book tells the story of Yldz Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is...

An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (17171797) was a collector...

New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-Europ...

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British womens writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that w...

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British womens writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that w...

A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsboroughs (172788) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle ...

Flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17591840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings ...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

Text in English & German. The beautiful Lau, the heroine of Eduard Mörike's story, is only half a water spirit -- her mother was a human woman,...

This anthology outlines a research project at the Angermuseum in Erfurt and forms the start of a new assessment of the landscape painter Friedrich ...

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its image...

Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patro...

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