Romantic Landscape – Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Samuel Palmer
The Academic Hierarchy of Genres had placed landscape painting low in its scale of values, but landscape painting took on increasing prominence and prestige in the Romantic period. Romantic landscapes are typically “moody” in atmosphere; they are more about the subjective feelings of the artist, than an objective record of the observable world. Storms, shipwrecks, and the mysterious light of dusk and dawn were popular themes:
In the series:
Jan. 10: The Birth of Landscape from the Tres Riches Heures to Bruegel
Jan. 17: 17th Century: A Golden Age of Landscape: Claude, Rubens and the Dutch
Jan. 24: Romantic Landscape – Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Samuel Palmer
Jan. 31: Landscape in the Age of Realism – Corot, Courbet, Menzel