the Romantic artists were entranced by the transcendent power that nature still held, even in the face of all of society’s advances. In many instances, this power was typified by the sea. Take, for ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Sme ...

Upon seeing the painting "The Monk by the Sea," Heinrich von Kleist, a contemporary of Friedrich's, wasn't thinking about peace of mind or romantic ecstasy. It reminded him more of an apocalypse ...

a Romantic like Friedrich could — in his immensely powerful “Monk by the Sea” of 1808-10 — dress a universal unknown in a cleric’s robe. This second-most-famous painting of his places a ...

That’s why he called Albert Boime, a late UCLA art history professor, who later hailed Khavarani as the leader of a new artistic movement called “abstract romanticism.” Khavarani is a ...

Richard Dorment finds history re-written by Tate Britain's Constable to Delacroix show ...

He made the world romantic (as the German poet and ... He tried to trigger the sublime most famously in “Monk by the Sea,” a large-scale painting, still startling in its radical emptiness ...