The romanticist movement was always caught ... In conversations about art today, romanticism has a dusty, discredited air. Weren’t Courbet, Manet and Menzel already revolting against romanticism ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...

A leading art historian in Paris and former president of what is now Sorbonne University, he is particularly expert in the work of Eugène Delacroix, the French Romantic artist best known for his ...