German Romanticism, the first movement of the Romantic current, was first and foremost a revolt against a world of reason, material progress, and …
Art and Artists of the Romantic Movement
19th-century Romanticism arose as a reaction to hyper-rational Enlightenment values. The Romantics portrayed the beauty of nature, human nature, and the irrational, in poems and on canvas.
The Romanticism movement occurred during a historical period beginning from the late eighteenth century (sometimes dated as 1783-89, the period of …
Emerging in the late 18th century, Romanticism was a broad-ranging style that spanned art, music, literature and poetry. Rejecting the order and …
William Blake was a man of extraordinary talent whose prolific career spanned poetry, painting, printmaking, and more. Rising out of London in the …
Charles Baudelaire is one the most influential writers of the modernist era. Rising to prominence in 19th century Paris, he is most commonly …
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was an English painter who is celebrated for transforming the rigid traditions of British landscape …
Known for his timeless landscapes, British artist John Constable contributed to the shift from Romanticism filled with mythology to a more realistic …