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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People Caspar David Friedrich: Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
Travel to the turn of the 19th century to experience the Romantic musical, literary, and artistic movement
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna Sir Walter Scott Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Charlotte Brontë William Blake: Pity J.M.W. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway
Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, explained
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Travel to the turn of the 19th century to experience the Romantic musical, literary, and artistic movement
A discussion of the key events and personalities of the late 18th- and early 19th-century...
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Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, explained
Saturn Devouring His Son was once a mural Francisco Goya painted inside...
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Myth-making in Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
The allegorical figure of Liberty is a French trope inspired by antiquity.
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Why did early critics hate The Death of Sardanapalus?
Eugène Delacroix painted The Death of Sardanapalus in 1826 or 1827, inspired...
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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, 1830; in...
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Caspar David Friedrich: Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon, oil on canvas by Caspar David Friedrich,...
Courtesy of the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Goethe in the Roman Campagna, oil on canvas by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein,...
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, oil on canvas by Richard Rothwell, first exhibited 1840;...
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Charlotte Brontë
A portrait of Charlotte Brontë, based on a chalk pastel by George Richmond.
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William Blake: Pity
Pity, colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, 1795;...
Courtesy of the trustees of the Tate, London; photographs, G. Robertson, A.C. Cooper Ltd.
J.M.W. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway
Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway, oil on canvas by J.M.W....
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore Géricault, c. 1819; in...
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Houses of Parliament in London
Houses of Parliament, London, a complex of Gothic Revival buildings designed by Charles...
Adrian Pingstone

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major
Excerpt from Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 61, by Ludwig van Beethoven,...
Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie
Excerpt from Harold en Italie, by Hector Berlioz, 1834. Written for viola...
Carl Maria von Weber: “Einst träumte meiner sel'gen Base”
“Einst träumte meiner sel'gen Base,” Ännchen's aria (No. 13, Romance) from Act III...
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