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The Engines of Our Ingenuity: English Romanticism
Created by graduate student Elizabeth Whitney, this site explores various aspects of the romantic movement in England, including the visual arts.
National Gallery of Art: Romantics and Realists
This focus tour from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,
highlights the work of artists of the romantic and realist movements.
Heart's Ease: Romanticism
Introductory text and artist links lead the student through an exploration of realist art on this website from the Heart's Ease gallery.
WebMuseum: Romanticism
Nicolas Pioch's WebMuseum offers this brief overview of the realist movement, with links to images.
Artcyclopedia: Romanticism
Artcyclopedia offers a list of many artists of the romantic movement, with links to related sites.
ArtLex: Romanticism
An overview of romanticism in the visual arts is provided by the ArtLex dictionary, with links to many examples.
Monographic
The following artist directories feature the leading academic websites, reviewed and cataloged by experts from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities:
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Eugène Delacroix
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Romanticism
This classic study takes an expository approach to romanticism, focusing on the radical transformations in Western thought, which attended the movement.
Romanticism and Art (World of Art)
This basic introductory study from the World of Art series offers an overview of romanticism in art, with suggestions for further reading.
German Romantic Painting
Highly readable and well-illustrated, German Romantic Painting
covers major artists and themes of the romantic movement in Germany, with
a select bibliography for further reading.
Thematic The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860
This highly original approach to the romantic era explores the relation
between canonical romantic literature and the visual culture that it grew
out of, attempting to recast romanticism as a product of its own times
rather than as a reaction to the Enlightenment rationalism that preceded
it.
The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812–1824
Beautifully written and illustrated, Alexander Nemerov's study of the still-life paintings of Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825) goes beyond the aesthetic and biographic to explore the nature of romanticism and selfhood in the visual and intellectual culture of early 19th-century America.
Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Grigsby's lucid analyses of the social, cultural, and psychic milieus inhabited by four key artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries—Girodet, Gros, Géricault, and Delacroix—are enriched by her eloquent explorations of four individual paintings. Focusing on France's colonial politics during the Napoleonic era, Extremities offers a new and invaluable perspective on visual production in the romantic era.
Monographic Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
Elegantly written, intellectually rigorous, and aesthetically sympathetic, Joseph Koerner's exploration of Friedrich's art provides invaluable insights into the German romantic movement as a whole.
Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting
This basic introductory study offers an overview of Friedrich's art and its relationship to the romantic movement in the visual arts. Caspar David Friedrich
Many original letters and writings by the artist are presented in this beautifully illustrated, thematic approach to Friedrich's life and art.
Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix was an elegant and intelligent writer and theorizer of art. The following books present his own words and ideas:
• The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection
• Eugène Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-63
Delacroix
This stunningly illustrated book, translated from its original French version, offers a helpful overview of Delacroix's life and art.
Delacroix: The Late Work
This catalog accompanied the excellent 1998–99 exhibition held in
Paris and Philadelphia. Four essays by prominent Delacroix scholars complement
the extensively annotated catalog entries.
The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix
The Cambridge Companion series provides essays by leading authorities on key figures in Western history. This introductory anthology offers an overview of the artist's life and career, with excerpts from his own writings, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading. Delacroix in Morocco
Although this catalog from the 1994–95 exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe in France is more anecdotal than analytical, its spectacular reproductions of some of Delacroix's most important works warrant a look.
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de Goya in Focus
The following artist directory features the leading academic websites, reviewed and cataloged by experts from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities:
Francisco
de Goya
Websites
InfoGoya '96
This excellent
virtual exhibition on the life and art of Francisco de Goya was
organized by the University of Zaragoza and the Institución
Fernando el Católico (Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza)
to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the artist's birth
in the village of Fuendetodos (Zaragoza, Spain) in 1746.
National Gallery of Art: Francisco de Goya
This focus tour from the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
D.C., highlights the work of Francisco de Goya.
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Francisco de Goya
From Carol Gerten Fine Arts, this site includes many images and a biography taken from the Microsoft Encarta '97 encyclopedia.
Book Picks
Goya (Art and Ideas)
A wonderful introduction to Goya and his times, this readable volume proceeds chronologically through Goya's career, focusing on major works and historic events.
Goya: Images of Women
Explore the cultural and social aspects of Goya's representations
of women in this catalog to the groundbreaking 2001–02 exhibition
at the Prado Museum in Spain and the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC
Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment
The foremost Goya scholar focuses on the transitional period of 1789–1816 in the artist's career, examining his relation to the Enlightenment and its aftermath. Good illustrations and an excellent bibliography make this an invaluable study
Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment
This 1988–89 exhibition at the Prado Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art places special emphasis on Goya's prints and drawings
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