Romantic Art
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.
Find a collection of romantic paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1880s Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
1830s Romantic Art
Oil
1880s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Bronze
2010s Romantic Art
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Panel
2010s Romantic Art
Linen, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Gouache
Late 18th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil, Board
1950s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1840s Romantic Art
Gesso, Watercolor
1990s Romantic Art
Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 1800s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas, Cotton Canvas
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Late 18th Century Romantic Art
Engraving, Etching
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Etching
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving
1910s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Romantic Art
Engraving, Etching
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Panel
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Linen, Oil
1920s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1840s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Marble, Metal
1980s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Art
Bronze
1830s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Bronze, Copper
1860s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Other Medium
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Linen, Oil, Board
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1870s Romantic Art
Etching
2010s Romantic Art
Panel, Egg Tempera
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
1840s Romantic Art
Watercolor
1820s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Bronze
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1860s Romantic Art
Marble
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Bronze