Romanticism
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Francisco Goya | Romanticism
Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter born in 1746 whose career shifted from elegant Rococo court portraits to darker, more political work shaped by war and upheaval. His painting The Third…
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Gustave Doré | Romanticism
Gustave Doré was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter, and sculptor born on January 6, 1832, and died on January 23, 1883, best remembered for his prolific wood engravings, including 241 illustrations…
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Arnold Böcklin | Romanticism
Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter born in Basel in 1827 who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy before travels through Belgium, France, and Italy shaped his mature style. Best known…
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Pavlos Prosalentis | Romanticism
Pavlos Prosalentis, known as the Younger, was a Greek painter born in 1857 into a well-known artistic family, trained first by his father and later in Italy and France. As part…
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Heinrich Gogarten | Romanticism
Heinrich Gogarten was a German painter born in 1850 in Linz am Rhein, trained at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf under Oswald Achenbach. After years working in Paris, Hamburg and Munich, he joined…
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George Elgar Hicks | Romanticism
George Elgar Hicks was an English Victorian painter born in Lymington, Hampshire, in 1824, who briefly studied medicine before turning to art at the Royal Academy Schools. Working in the style…
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Gaetano Chierici | Romanticism
Gaetano Chierici was an Italian painter born in Reggio Emilia in 1838, who trained in Modena, Florence, and Bologna before turning to genre scenes of domestic peasant life in the late…
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Fernand Pelez | Romanticism
Fernand Pelez was a French painter born in Paris in 1843, trained under Alexandre Cabanel, who shifted in the 1880s from traditional Salon subjects to unflinching, deeply sympathetic paintings of the…
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Doré Gustave | Romanticism
Gustave Doré was a French illustrator and engraver born in Strasbourg in 1832, celebrated for his richly detailed wood engravings for classic books by writers like Dante, Cervantes and Poe. He…
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Anselm Feuerbach | Romanticism
Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter born in Speyer in 1829 who trained in Düsseldorf, Munich and Antwerp before settling in Paris to study under Thomas Couture. He later lived in…
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Nikolaos Gyzis | Romanticism
Nikolaos Gyzis was a major Greek painter born in 1842 on the island of Tinos, who trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts before moving to Munich, where he became…
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Jean-Paul Laurens | Romanticism
Jean-Paul Laurens was a French painter and sculptor born in Fourquevaux in 1838, trained under Léon Cogniet and known as one of the last major figures of French Academic painting. A…
