Romanticism
4 postsScenes from the Massacres at Chios
Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix's decision in 1824 was to paint the aftermath, not the action. The Ottoman massacre of the Greek population of Chios had occurred two years earlier, in April 1822, during the Greek War of In
The Raft of the Medusa
Painting (oil on canvas) · Théodore Géricault
On the second of July 1816 the French frigate Méduse ran aground on the Bank of Arguin off the coast of Mauritania. The frigate had been sailing under a politically appointed captain, Hugues Duroy de
Saturn Devouring His Son
Mural transferred to canvas · Francisco Goya
Goya painted Saturn on the wall of his own kitchen at sixty-eight, deaf for three decades, after surviving three regimes that wanted him dead. The reading of the Black Paintings as private therapy is
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Painting (oil on canvas) · Caspar David Friedrich
Friedrich's painting works by what he denies the viewer. The figure's face is turned away. The valley is consumed in fog. The mountain ridge in the middle distance breaks the surface only enough to co
