Guide
Romanticism in Art
Feeling before classical calm: revolution, the sublime and personal vision in European painting, about 1780 to 1850.
Romanticism put emotion, imagination and the artist’s stance ahead of academic restraint. This guide explains the sublime and contemporary history as subjects, follows Géricault, Delacroix, Goya, Friedrich and Turner, and shows how the movement left Realism and later modern painting its restless inheritance.