Pre-cursors to Romanticism

Hellenistic Greek

Epigonos?
Dying Gaul
c. 230-220 BCE
Roman marble copy after a bronze original
lifesize, 36" high

Epigonos?
Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and His Wife
c. 230-230 BCE
Roman marble copy after a bronze original

Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athanadoros
Laocoon and His Sons
2nd century BCE-first century CE, possibly Roman copy
marble, height 96"

Italian Baroque

Bernini
Apollo and Daphne
1622-1625
marble, height 95 5/8"

Bernini
David
1623
marble, height 5' 7"

Bernini
Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy
Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
1645-1652
marble, height of the group 11' 6"

Caravaggio
Conversion of St. Paul
1601-1602
Oil on canvas, 7' 6 1/2" x 5' 9"

Caravaggio
Young Bacchus
1593

Caravaggio
Medusa
1596-1598

Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Beheading Holoferenes
1614-1620
oil on canvas, 6' 6 1/3" 5' 4"

Romanticism

Anne Louise Girodet-Trioson
Entombment of Atala
1808
oil on canvas, 6' 11" x 8' 9"

Paul Delaroche
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
1843
oil on canvas, 8' 1" x 9' 9"

Romantic Portraits

Eugene Delacroix
Frederic Chopin
1838
oil on canvas, 18" x 15"

Eugene Delacroix
Paganini
1831
oil on cardboard on wood panel, 1' 5 5/8" x 11 7/8"

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Paganini
1819 ****Neoclassical Comparison***
pencil drawing, approximately 1' x 8 1/2"

Romanticism: The Mind

John Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare
1781
oil on canvas, 3' 4" x 4' 2"

Theodore Gericault
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
1822-23
oil on canvas, 32 1/2" x 16"

Theodore Gericault
Portrait of a Woman Addicted to Gambling
1822-1823
oil on canvas, 32 1/2" x 16"

Theodore Gericault
Portrait of Madwoman with a Mania of Envy
1822-23
oil on canvas, 28 3/8" 22 4/5"

Theodore Gericault
The Raft of the “Medusa"
1818-1819
oil on canvas, 16' 1" x 23' 6"

Orientalism

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Grande Odalisque
1814
oil on canvas, approximately 2' 11" x 5' 4"

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Odalisque with a Slave
1839-1840
oil on canvas, 28 3/8" x 39 1/2"

Eugene Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus
1827
oil on canvas, 12' 1 1/2" x 16' 2 7/8"

Eugene Delacroix
Women of Algiers
1834
oil on canvas, 70 7/8" x 90 1/8"

 Romantic Revolution

Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
1830
oil on canvas, 8' 6" x 10 10"

Francisco Goya
The Third of May, 1808
1814
oil on canvas, 8' 9" x 13' 4"

 Francisco Goya
Saturn Devouring His Children
1819-1823
wall painting in oil detached on canvas,
4' 9 7/8" x 2' 8 5/8"

 Romantic Landscape/Nature

Thomas Cole
View from Mount Holyoke, Northhampton, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) 1836
oil on canvas, 4' 3 1/2" x 6' 4"

John Constable
The Haywain
1821
oil on canvas, 51 1/4" x 73"

Caspar David Friedrich
The Wanderer above the Mist
c. 1817-1818
oil on canvas, 2' 5 1/2" x 3' 1 1/4"

Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Slave Ship (Slavers Thrown Overboard the Dead and the Dying Typhoon Coming On)
1840
oil on canvas, 35 3/4" x 48 1/4"

Romantic Architecture

Sir Charles Barry and A.N. Pugin
The Houses of Parliament, London, England
Begun 1836
Length 940'

John Nash
Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England
1815-1822

Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons,
October 16, 1834
1835
oil on canvas, 3' 1/4" x 4' 1/2"

Horace Walpole, with William Robinson and others. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England
1749-1777