Romantic Nude Paintings
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
1890s Romantic Nude Paintings
Paper, Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil, Burlap
Mid-20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
1890s Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Nude Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Lithograph, Drypoint, Engraving
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Romantic Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
1930s Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 1900s Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
1850s Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Nude Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
1850s Romantic Nude Paintings
Tempera, Paper, Watercolor
Late 19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil, Panel
Late 19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Oil, Panel
1930s Romantic Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil