Romanticism: Girtin, Turner & Constable
Essay on J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Girtin & John Constable.
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Romanticism: romance, sublime, picturesque
Romanticism is a much used and abused term which has persistently eluded concise definition since it was coined in the mid 17th century, but its origins lie in the rebirth …
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Romanticism: the Pre-Raphaelites
The concept of 'Truth to Nature' espoused by the greatest Victorian writer on art, John Ruskin, was founded upon a romantic perception of the natural world and veneration f…
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Romanticism: the exotic
Essay on a series of English editions of the collection of Arabic tales known as The Thousand and One Nights, which fed interest in this exotic civilisation
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