Stańczyk is an 1862 painting by Polish history painter Jan Matejko. It is located in the Warsaw National Museum. Analysis of Stańczyk This painting depicts a famous court jester named Stańczyk, who lived during the reign of King Sigismund I of Poland. The painting shows Stańczyk sitting alone in a room, with a sad and …
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is an 1818 painting by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It can be found in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany.
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps is an 1812 Romantic historical painting by English artist J.M.W Turner. Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Analysis It is an imposing picture combining the naturalistic and historical themes in a Romantic key and is considered to be one of the most famous paintings by …
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The Sackville Children is a 1796 triple-portrait by prominent British portrait painter John Hoppner. This work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, United States.
Spanish Romantic painter Francisco Goya’s masterpiece The Nude Maja (or La Maja desnuda) depicts a naked woman reclining on a bed, her arms laid on the cushions behind her. Possibly a lover of Manuel de Godoy, the Spanish prime minister who commissioned the painting, or perhaps a lover of the artist himself. The Nude Maya …
Portrait of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton is a 1787 painting of socialite and philanthropist Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by American artist Ralph Earl. It is in the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan, New York City in the United States. Analysis of Portrait of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton The sitter was the wife of Alexander …
Black Panther Stalking a Herd of Deer is an 1851 landscape animal oil on canvas painting in the Romantic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.
The Picador is a 19th-century genre oil on canvas painting in the Romantic style by French artist and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme.
In Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland, we see J.M.W. Turner’s 1836 fascination with the sublime turmoil of the sky and the sea. This, and the artist’s style of loose and fast brushstrokes conspire to make a picture that is both true to the perception and romanticized with an impulse to near abstraction. The boatmen of the …
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Here we have a painting of Calais Pier by the Romantic artist J.M.W. Turner is a perfect example of what art critic of the time John Ruskin called Turner’s “colossal power”. We are presented with a storm-swept scene from 1801 that is full of elemental danger and drama that is also a recollection of the …
Shade and Darkness The Evening of the Deluge is an 1843 religious painting by leading Romantic artist J.M.W Turner. Shade and Darkness The Evening of the Deluge Analysis J.M.W. Turner’s Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge is an 1843 companion to Light and Colour in which Moses is shown writing the Book …
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Here American artist Fitz Henry Lane paints Boston Harbour as a naval scene of several ships in a highly realistic style. This 1856 work shows a particular concern with the light effects of the sky and a certain glassiness of the gently rippling water that masks depth. Lane’s concern with light was such that he …
After his marriage to Caroline Brommer, Caspar David Friedrich began to include women in his work as can be seen in Woman before the Setting Sun from 1818-20. This picture is the essence of Romantic engagement with awe-inspiring nature, as the woman’s outstretched arms seem to communicate an intensely personal encounter with the sublimity of …
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Prayer Before Battle is a grand scale painting by Jósef Chelmonskí where we see foot soldiers of the forces of the Polish Uprising against the Russian Empire take to their knees under their banner before the onslaught at Raclawice in 1794. The red caps of the drummers and the homemade scythes of the infantry were …
Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch is an 1830 religious painting by American folk Edward Hicks. Analysis of Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch was painted between 1826 and 1830 by Edward Hicks, who was a Quaker preacher and painter who rendered many versions of the Peaceable Kingdom. At a time of …
German painter Eduard Magnus created Return of the Palikaren while in Italy in 1836. Here he shows in gesture, expression, and even coloring the high sentimentality of the late Romantic phase. This picture depicts a man in mythological Greek dress, perhaps a soldier, who is reunited with his family after a long engagement. Eduard Magnus’s …
German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich created The Oak Tree in the Snow in 1828. Friedrich typical themes included the solitary consciousness and absorption in nature. In this natural scene in which a blasted and winter oak tree stands out from the snow, we are reminded of the trials of life – the tree is …
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The Temple of Segesta is an 1843 landscape painting by English American Romantic artist Thomas Cole. Analysis of the Temple of Segesta English-born American painter Thomas Cole paints in 1843 the Temple of Segesta, outside the ancient Sicilian city of Segesta. Set in an expansive landscape under an azure Mediterranean sky, an artist in the …
English artist J.M.W. Turner here paints Melrose Abbey in a scene suffused with natural light and shows a Romantic fascination with the picturesque of ruins. Also, the single figure of a man stands in the background in front of the massive window. Painted in 1822, this picture too is Romantic in that it conforms to …
1818’s Easter Morning by German painter Friedrich Overbeck depicts Jesus Christ blessing Mary Magdalene. The colours of the landscape and robes, and different levels in the picture show a return to the devotional images of the early Renaissance, such as the work of Giotto. Overbeck was part of the Nazarene school of art in Germany. …
