THE TOP 12

Romanticism Paintings

an overview of romanticism

The Romantic period spanned from around 1790 to 1880 and arose from dissatisfaction with the Enlightenment’s values of order and reason after the French Revolution in 1789. Romanticism indulged the artist’s emotions and imagination, allowing these feelings and ideas to permeate the viewer.

OUR TOP 12 MOST FAMOUS romanticism paintings

#1

The Nightmare  (1781) Henry Fuseli

#2

Upper Fall of the Reichenbach: Rainbow (1810)  J. M. W. Turner

#3

Third of May 1808  (1814) Francisco Goya

#4

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818) Caspar David Friedrich

#5

The Raft of the Medusa  (1818 – 1819) Théodore Géricault

#6

The Hay Wain  (1821) John Constable

#7

Épisode des Journées de Septembre 1830 (1830) Marie-Adélaïde Kindt

#8

Liberty Leading the People (1830) Eugène Delacroix

#9

The Titan’s Goblet  (1833) Thomas Cole

#10

The Ninth Wave  (1850) Ivan Aivazovsky

#11

The Kiss  (1859) Francesco Hayez

#12

Kaaterskill Creek  (c. 1870) Susie M. Barstow