The early 19th century was a period in German art in which painting played a significant part in the cultural resurgence commonly known as the Romantic Movement. This Movement and some of its chief exponents are examined against a background of German literature, philosophy and music.
Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism
... Art of Romanticism as a Synthesis of the Arts', in The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, ed. Keith Hartley et al., exh. cat. Royal Academy of Art, Edinburgh (Stuttgart: Oktagon, 1994), p. 307. For the heteronomous view of Overbeck's ...
Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism
'This is an interesting and thought provoking book which provides a valuable new perspective on the history of the reception and interpretation of German Romantic art, and in particular the problematic position of the Nazarenes within this ...
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
... Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Romantics.41 Renaissance figures such as Ficino and Raphael brought Platonism and Christianity together . Wackenroder , in turn , chose to include Raphael's Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia because it ...
This is the first major study of the evolution, structure, and conceptual complexity of this archetypically nineteenth-century language of belief.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the leading artist of the German Romantic Movement, provides the focus for this fascinating study which contextualises the artist's work in relation to his German predecessors,...
German Romantic Painting
A German Dream: Masterpieces of Romanticism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin