Romantic paintings

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Romantic paintings


Several masters have honored love and romantic ideals through their paintings.


"Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling." Charles Baudelaire


Jean-Antoine Watteau,

Image:Watteau The Bird Nester.jpg

Watteau, The Bird Nester.


Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The four Fragonard Paintings for Madame Du Barry representing The Progress of Love.


Image:Fragonard The Love Vow...jpg

Fragonard, The Love Vow.



Romantic ideals and explorations of emotional states, were shared by painters of the Romanticism like: Eugene Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, William Turner and John Constable. Romanticism flourished in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century.


Image:Delacroix The Death of Sardanapalus.jpg

Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix.

See also

Fragonard, Happy Lovers.

External links

Romantic Stroll by Brent Heighton
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