Romantic Portrait Prints
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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1860s Romantic Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1920s Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Watercolor, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Oak, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor, Paint, Glass
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Digital
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Digital
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Digital
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Engraving
19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching, Paper, Drypoint
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching
1950s Romantic Portrait Prints
Ceramic
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...
1980s Romantic Portrait Prints
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
1990s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...
1980s Romantic Portrait Prints
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
1980s Romantic Portrait Prints
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
1980s Romantic Portrait Prints
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
1980s Romantic Portrait Prints
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
1840s Romantic Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Romantic Portrait Prints
Screen
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Engraving, Aquatint
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching, Mezzotint
1970s Romantic Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Paper, Etching
1890s Romantic Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1890s Romantic Portrait Prints
Mezzotint, Paper, Ink
1770s Romantic Portrait Prints
Etching
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Engraving