One of the greatest Romantic painters, he captured the grandeur of nature on canvas as magnificently as the power of machines.His portrait adorns the United Kingdom's 20 pound bill. The country's ...

Romanticism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau; Cubism (Picasso) and Surrealism (Dalí). In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing ...

Roaming Europe, we admire stately Neoclassical buildings and dramatic Romantic paintings. Around 1800, Europe was in transition, reflected in two art styles. First, we visit Europe’s great ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Sme ...

As seafaring grew safer, easier, and more profitable, so too did man’s confidence in his victory over nature. Romantic artists of the early- and mid-nineteenth century, such as J. M. W. Turner and ...

The result was a group of painters loosely classified as “romantic minimalists.” The history of Ralph Humphrey, 37, and Dan Christensen, 26, is characteristic. A year ago, they displayed ...

one of France’s great 19th-century Romantic artists. Titled Study of Reclining Lions, the previously unknown painting has been owned by the same family since the mid-1800s, as La Nouvelle ...

There are paintings by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)—the ne plus ultra of German Romantic artists—that are so celebrated and widely reproduced we can see them with our eyes closed.