Romanticism

Wolf, Norbert 1949- (author.). Walther, Ingo F., (editor.).

Summary: Around the year 1800, philosophers, writers, and artists in Germany began to propagate a new vision of the world they described as "romantic". The term covered a range of ideas: that nature was informed with the divine spirit and that the individual human imagination could immerse itself in the universal fabric; but also that the creative mind, being profoundly solitary, would yearn for harmony between man and nature--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9783836549554
ISBN: 3836549557
Physical Description: print
95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm.
Edition: [Second edition].
Publisher: Köln [Germany] : Taschen, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

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Translated from the German.

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Ideals in nineteenth-century painting -- The nightmare / Henry Fuseli -- Hecate / William Blake -- Madame Récamier / François Gérard -- Self-portrait / Tommaso Minardi -- Justice and divine vengeange pursuing crime / Pierre-Paul Prud'hon -- Morning (first version) / Philipp Otto Runge -- Portrait of the Second Lieutenant Charles Legrand / Antoine-Jean Gros -- Shulamit and Mary / Franz Pforr -- Man reading at lamplight / Georg Friedrich Kersting -- The execution of the rebels of 3 May 1808 / Francisco de Goya -- Set design for "The Magic Flute" : starry sky for the Queen of the Night / Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Joseph reveals himself to his brothers / Peter von Cornelius -- Wanderer watching a sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich -- Ideal landscape near Rocca Canterana / Cal Philipp Fohr -- The raft of the Medusa / Theodore Géricault -- Dante and Vergil in hell (The Barque of Dante) / Eugène Delacroix -- Eruption of the Vesuvius / Johan Christian Clausen Dahl -- Salisbury Cathedral, from the Bishop's grounds / John Constable -- View of the Eibsee / Carl Rottmann -- Mazeppa / Horace Vernet -- Italia and Germania (Shulamit and Mary) / Friedrich Overbeck -- Scene from the Apocalypse / Francis Danby -- Devil's bridge / Karl Blechen -- The Goethe monument / Carl Gustav Carus -- The Titan's goblet / Thomas Cole -- Crossing at the Schreckenstein / Ludwig Richter -- The poor poet / Carl Spitzweg -- Pandemonium / John Martin -- Peace, burial at sea / William Turner -- Fur traders descending the Missouri / George Caleb Bingham -- The defense of Saragossa / Eugenio Lucas y Padilla -- Niagara Falls / Frederic Edwin Church -- The Turkish bath / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Half Dome, Yosemite / Albert Bierstadt -- Agostina / Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.