painting along the way from Naples to Sicily to Malta and back. As the legend goes, he was waiting for a pardon from Pope Urban VIII when one of his enemies finally caught up with him and killed him in Porto Er
Commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France, Liberty Leading the People has become synonymous with the revolutionary spirit all over the world. Combining allegory with contemporary elements, the painting is a thrilling example of the Romantic style, going for ...
In Revolutionary France, François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, and Madame de Staël were the chief initiators of Romanticism, by virtue of their influential historical and theoretical writings. The second phase of Romanticism, comprising the period from about 1805 to the 1830s, was ...
ranging from North African Arab life to revolutionary politics at home.Paul Delaroche,Théodore Chassériau, and, occasionally,Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingresrepresent the last, more academic phase of Romantic painting in France. In Germany Romantic painting took on symbolic and allegorical overtones, as ...
In Revolutionary France, François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, and Madame de Staël were the chief initiators of Romanticism, by virtue of their influential historical and theoretical writings. The second phase of Romanticism, comprising the period from about 1805 to the 1830s, was ...