Art & Design Styles: Romanticism

Preface and Acknowledgments by Washburn S. Oberwager In 1865 the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to...

Nineteenth-Century European Painting: From Barbizon to Belle Époque represents a comprehensive guide to the range of stylistically diverse genres o...

This groundbreaking reconstruction of Goya's so-called 'Witches and Old Women' album will offer rich insights into the artist's concerns and preocc...

The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, claimed Caspar David Friedrich, but also what he sees in himself. He should have a dialog...

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with co...

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires t...

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires t...

'To critics who said that the full-lipped so-called 'Beardsley mouth', which adorned many of his women, was 'inexpressive and ugly', the artist cou...

Scholars and enthusiasts alike will revel in this ambitious two-volume catalogue raisonné of Thomas Gainsboroughs portraits and copies of Old Maste...

Blake engaged with the legacy of Milton all his life. These watercolours, made around 1816-20 to illustrate the most perfect of Milton's shorter po...

In this new monograph, part of Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art the University of Reading, examines...

In The Nazarenes, Cordula Grewe presents a timely revisionist account of the Nazarenes, a group of early nineteenth-century German artists who have...

Truth to Nature, a rallying cry for those artists and critics aiming to reform art-making practices in Great Britain over the course of the ninetee...

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artistsJ. M. W....

The English Romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) was hailed as the painter of light for his brilliantly colored landscapes and ...

A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticisms most influential and elusive paintersEugène Delacroix (17981863) was a ...

This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, explores and celebrates Turners lifelong fascination with...

A revealing new portrait of J.M.W. Turner and the man behind the art, uncovering fresh material and shedding new light on this complicated and secr...

A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolu...

Alan Sorrells early ambition was to be a painter of imaginative narrative pictures, often in the form of mural decorations. In this he was successf...

The first half of this book is a detailed exploration of Turner's life and background. It begins with his early years in London, where he exhibited...