Romantic Figurative Paintings
ROMANTIC STYLE
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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Style: Romantic
Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri
By Egisto Sarri
Located in Rome, IT
Egisto Sarri
"Pompeian scene"
Oil on canvas, measure: cm 30 x 48 with a filly carved gilt - wood frame cm 46 x 64
Signature in the lower left-hand corner: "E. Sarri
Egisto Sarri
(Figline val d'Arno 1837 - Florence 1901)
Sarri studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini, and was one of Antonio Ciseri...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Long Beach
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a subtle and colorful seascape. A popular Hamptons beach along the Peconic Bay, in Sag Harbor. A humble spot in New York's famous Hamptons. A backlit figure sits beneath an umbrella along the shoreline. Other figures can be found in the distance, on the shore or swimming in the bay.
This work is currently unframed.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Conversando", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Artsit Ángel María Cortellini
Located in Madrid, ES
ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI
Spanish, 1819 - 1887
CONVERSANDO
signed "Cortellini" (lower right)
oil on canvas
13-1/4 x 11 inches (33.5 x 28 cm.)
framed: 17-1/4 x 15 (44 x 38 cm.)
Ángel María Cortellini. Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), 27.09.1819 – Madrid, 1887. Painter.
Ángel María Cortellini was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 27, 1819, to an Italian father and a Spanish and Sanlúcar mother. Contrary to family opinion, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and already, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in a drawing academy in his hometown. They soon sent him to Seville, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jour de Fête III_Swan Scalabre, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Portrait/Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Jour de Fête III"
Oil on Wood
6 x 4.5 in
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women, po...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Jour de Fête II_Swan Scalabre, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Portrait/Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Jour de Fête II"
Oil on Wood
6 x 4.5 in
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women, por...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Bathing Ogunquit
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life in Ogunquit, Maine. A sandy beach crowded with figures sitting beneath umbrellas. Shadows are cast and depicted with rich purples and blues.
This work is currently unframed.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri
By Egisto Sarri
Located in Rome, IT
Egisto Sarri
"Pompeian scene"
Oil on canvas, measure: cm 30 x 48 with a filly carved gilt - wood frame cm 46 x 64
Signature in the lower left-hand corner: "E. Sarri
Egisto Sarri
(Figline val d'Arno 1837 - Florence 1901)
Sarri studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini, and was one of Antonio Ciseri...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Triptyque Jour de Fête_Swan Scalabre, Oil/Wood_Portrait/Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Triptyque Jour de Fête"
Oil on Wood
6 x 4.5 in Each 6 x 13.5 in. Overall
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, ...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Lovers at the Fountain - Italian 19th Century Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Rome, IT
Amanti alla Fontana - Lovers by a fountain, painting oil on canvas,
Signed left sight.
Measures: cm 70 x 100 frame 118 x 145
Faustini Modesto. Brescia, 27 maggio 1839 - Roma, 23 m...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sleeping Beauty", George Tsui, Original Oil on Canvas, 47x19 in., Figurative
By George Tsui
Located in Dallas, TX
George Tsui's imagination is filled with Chinese themes. The idea of creating his own brand of classic romanticism, unrestrained by conventional reality, w...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
1950s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Roses I, Calligraphy, Romantic, Impressionism, Gold Flowers, Figurative
Located in Sungai Petani, Kedah
Excited to share my latest artwork, "Golden Roses I". This piece features gold gilding and calligraphy on a round canvas with a Chinoiserie touch, adding a romantic flair to any decor.
Measuring 20cm in radius and 1.5cm in depth, this acrylic painting shines with a soft luster, enhancing the golden moment of opportunity as beautifully described by William James, ''To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.'
Golden Roses I (2021) is not just a painting; it's a piece of art signed by me and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, ensuring its uniqueness and value.
Art enthusiasts, feel free to explore this creation and immerse yourself in the elegance of "Golden Roses I".
Art © 2019-2022 Fuen Chin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri
By Egisto Sarri
Located in Rome, IT
Egisto Sarri
"Pompeian scene"
Oil on canvas, measure: cm 30 x 48 with a filly carved gilt - wood frame cm 46 x 64
Signature in the lower left-hand corner: "E. Sarri
Egisto Sarri
(Figline val d'Arno 1837 - Florence 1901)
Sarri studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini, and was one of Antonio Ciseri...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scandalous Bride, Harlequin Romance Book Cover
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A romance novel cover for Scandalous Bride by Diana Hamilton, published by Harlequin for their Scandals series, 1997.
Signed Lower Right
Man and woman lying in bed...
Category
1990s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright
Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame.
Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
Category
1990s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Black Silk' Romantic Portrait of Woman with Flowers on Black in Black Dress
By Goxwa
Located in Wellesley, MA
Ġoxwa began painting at a very young age in her native land of Malta and eventually enrolled at the Saint Martin School of Art in London. Years later, she moved to Boston and atte...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wax
Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
By Nino Guiffrida
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nino Guiffrida (Italian, born 1924)
Title: Arlequin et Pierrette au Carnaval
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 19.75 inches
Signature: signed upper right...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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