Epochs · Europe
Romanticism
c. 1790 – 1850
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A reaction against Enlightenment reason and Neoclassical restraint. Romantic painters put feeling first: awe before the sublime power of nature, horror at war and disaster, passion for liberty and national identity. Brushwork loosens, skies take over, and the individual stands small against forces larger than himself.
Hallmarks
- The sublime in nature
- Emotion over reason
- Contemporary disasters and revolutions
- Expressive colour and loose handling
Artists here
- Joseph Wright of Derby · 1734 – 1797
- Henry Fuseli · 1741 – 1825
- Francisco Goya · 1746 – 1828
- Caspar David Friedrich · 1774 – 1840
- J. M. W. Turner · 1775 – 1851
- John Constable · 1776 – 1837
- Théodore Géricault · 1791 – 1824
- Eugène Delacroix · 1798 – 1863
- Karl Bryullov · 1799 – 1852
- Ivan Aivazovsky · 1817 – 1900
