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 cities with ...

Artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí express the complexity of our modern world. In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing ...

Kent Monkman's paintings are epic, action-packed, dramatic and witty, with scenes meticulously painted in various styles that range from Neoclassicism and Romanticism to 20th-century modernism. It's ...

Vol. 35, No. 1, Sculpture et poétique: Sculpture and Literature in France, 1789—1859 (Fall 2006), pp. 22-35 (14 pages) Brix's introductory essay exposes the problematic rapport between neoclassicism ...

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy, “Aeneas and Companions in Latium” (circa 1790-1793) black ink and wash with white gouache highlights on brown paper (21.4 x 16.3 cm) PARIS — Over the course of history, ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

The period we call Romanticism is similarly complex, partly because it is as much a literary as an artistic movement, and partly because its chronology varies from one country to another. In Britain ...