Autumn is nipping at the leaves, and summer’s light is waning. Grab your favorite sweater and get ready to introspect like a Romantic because...
Coleman Richards 18 November 2025
Sadness and desolation fill this scene like an oppressive melancholy. The sun is dying behind the horizon as fog enshrouds the ground. Skeletal trees...
James W Singer 1 November 2025
What a horror spectacle! Some dark, irrational forces must be at play here. Henry Fuseli painted The Nightmare in 1781. It is probably his most...
Ruxi Rusu 31 October 2025
Caspar David Friedrich was a master of romantic atmosphere. Gothic ruins, contemplative figures silhouetted against skies and morning mists were his...
Zuzanna Stańska 31 October 2025
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” And indeed wicked it is! From Macbeth to Romeo and Juliet, William...
Ruxi Rusu 13 October 2025
Théodore Géricault completed The Raft of the Medusa when he was 27, and the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. It is a direct precursor...
Clinton Pittman 26 September 2025
People once thought Romanticism belonged only to painting, not sculpture. Auguste Préault challenged that belief with bold creativity. The...
Errika Gerakiti 26 September 2025
Early 19th-century French art was a battle between cool, crisp, precisely observed Neoclassicism and Romanticism’s passion for emotion, drama,...
Catriona Miller 26 September 2025
The female form has been revered since time immemorial and women adorn artworks of all mediums portraying all imaginable aspects of femininity. These...
Maya M. Tola 22 September 2025
In the 19th century, Europeans went crazy for one story: Atala, or the Story of Two Lovers in the Desert. It is a novel by René de Chateaubriand...
Jimena Escoto, Guest Author 12 September 2025
This petite (9.5 x 12.5 cm, 3 3/4 x 4 in.) oil on canvas by J. M. W. Turner contains big things: big landscapes, big stories and big skies. It is an...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 21 August 2025
