This course is divided into three areas—art, literature, and music. Each is taught by a different professor, who will discuss the effect of Romanticism on the field. For details, see Emerging ...

Roaming Europe, we admire stately Neoclassical buildings and dramatic Romantic paintings. Around 1800, Europe was in transition, reflected in two art styles. First, we visit Europe’s great cities with ...

Paris has long held the world’s imagination as a city of love. From candlelit dinners beside the Seine to leisurely strolls ...

Caspar David Friedrich (born Greifswald, 1774 – died Dresden, 1840) embodies Romantic art like few other painters. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of his birth, the Hamburger Kunsthalle ...

Artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí express the complexity of our modern world. In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing ...

Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and ...