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Romanticism – Not just a romance
Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake.
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Ivan Aivazovsky and the Russian Painters of Water
Master of the Sublime, he made the ocean the principal subject of his work. Sometimes wild and raging, sometimes calm and peaceful, the life of the ocean is composed of as many allegories as the human condition.
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Turner – the painter of light – is the best-loved English Romantic artist
At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an illustrator.
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Delacroix Sexist?
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Edward Burne-Jones
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Vampires: dark and evil or sparkly and romantic?
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Beaux-Arts, fromage, guillotines, and other French concepts
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Edward Hopper: The Man, The Mystery, The Muse
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Turner, Monet, Twombly: An Unlikely Trio
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