Art & Design Styles: Romanticism

In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch t...

From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resista...

Friedrich Preller der Ältere prägte mit seinen mythologischen Landschaften das Ideal einer am klassischen Kanon orientierten Kunstauffassung des 19...

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugos n...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century Gothic villa and garden beside the Rive...

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized ...

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (17641838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (17621853) designed interiors that responde...

As part of the Discover series, this catalogue explores Constables most famous painting and its social, political and artistic significance. It beg...

Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at any time before o...

This opulent catalog is the first major publication to cover the principal estate of Erfurt-born landscape painter Friedrich Nerly (18071878). The ...

Essays bilingual (English/German) / Catalog raisonné monolingual (German) Friedrich von Amerling (18031887) was one of Viennas most important port...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

Henry Fuseli (17411825) was one of the eighteenth centurys most provocative and inventive artists. He is best known for his painting The Nightmare,...

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (12651321), is widely consi...

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (12651321), is widely consi...

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...

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...

Never before available in English, these reminiscences of Caspar David Friedrich by fellow romantic painters and poets give a fascinating picture o...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...