Romantics Unbound | Romanticism Studies--Art

As with literary studies, the meaning of the term Romanticism and how it is used in art history and criticism has been extensively debated. What we can safely say about "Romantic" art is that it was created from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth. Furthermore, it expressed a marked aesthetic and ideological shift away from the lavish and decadent styles of the courtly Rococo, exploring sensibility as the new human law of the heart, or capturing rebellious heroism of a revolutionary age, or representing the emotional excesses of the sublime and the psychological darkness of the Gothic. Lastly, it eventually gave way to the stark rationalism and scientific positivism of Realism in the second half of the nineteenth century (against which the Pre-Raphaelites rebelled with their own form of "Romantic" tone, style, and mood).

I found few university Web sites for Romantic artists; however, the sites listed below do provide excellent biographical and historical background along with many fine image files. Any study of Romanticism would not be complete without considering how the historical events and emerging political ideals of this era influenced painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Starting Points
Romanticism in Art	Background information provided by Questia online library.
Fiovanni Battista Piranisi (1720-1778)
CGFA Virtual Gallery	Provides links to biographical information and some very nice images.
Orazio Centario's Art Images on the Web	Provides a brief biography and many links to images all over the Web.
Jean Baptise Greuse (1735-1805)
Webmuseum	Brief biographical information and links to selected paintings.
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807)
Pre-Victorian Artists	A list of brief notes on Kauffman and other pre-Victorian artists.
Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
Francisco Goya on the WWW	A great starting point with many links to background information and on-line images.
Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
CGFA Virtual Gallery	Provides biographical information and links to some very nice images.
Jacques Louis David Page	A sampling of some very good images. This page downloads very slowly. Maintained by David Debrestian, a physicist.
Orazio Centario's Art Images on the Web	Provides links to biography and many on-line images from all over the Web.
Anne Louis Girodet-Troison (1767-184)
Henry Fuseli (1771-1825)
WebMuseum	Excellent background information and links to three nice images.
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840)
CGFA Virtual Gallery	Provides biographical information and links to a selection of nice images.
WebMuseum	Provides excellent background information and links to many good images.
Orazio Centario's Art Images on the Web	Provides a brief biography and links to other databases of paintings.
TCM's (The Cookie Monster) Casper David Friedrich Gallery	A very extensive page with contextual background and links to many images.
Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
WebMuseum	Excellent background information, but only two paintings.
John Constable (1776-1837)
CGFA Virtual Gallery	Contains biography and links to many online paintings.
NAS Virtual Art Gallery	Contains a brief biographical sketch and a selection of paintings.
WebMuseum	Provides biographical and contextual information, links to other artists and material, and links to Constable paintings.
Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810)
Gallery of the 19th Century	A short biography and gallery of works.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
WebMuseum	Excellent background information and several links to good images.
Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
CGFA Virtual Gallery	Provides links to biography and many good images.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
WebMuseum	Nice collection of paintings and good background information.
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art	This page provides brief background information on the artist and his life and one scanned image.
American Literature to 1900	This page is part of an English course at Reed College taught by Laura Arnold, and it offers biographical information and images of several paintings.
Thomas Cole and the Landscape Tradition	A brief lecture with one image sample by Glenn Harcourt of the University of Southern California.
Romance with Nature	Brief background information on Thomas Cole by the Virtual Museum of the University of Southern California.
Pre-Raphaelites	While these painters are not technically Romantic painters, their late 19^th-century subjects were indeed Romantic in style, tone, image, and theme, as they reacted against realism and other aesthetic theories and practices dominating the later nineteenth century.
The Pre-Raphaelite Collection	This is a beautiful page produced by Webmagick that provides a brief description of the Pre-Raphaelites and contains many excellent images and links to several other Pre-Raphaelite resources.
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)	This is the hypermedia archive created by Jerome McGann, providing a wealth of background information on this poet-painter and his works.
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)	An excellent page with a brief biography and links to many images.
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)	This very beautiful page provides extensive biographical information, a time line, and links to several nice images.
Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)	This site offers some very good contextual information with links to background on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and its members and links to images and museums with Pre-Raphaelite holdings.

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