art

Introduction to the Salon and the Royal Academy (essay from The Met)

A beginner’s guide to Romanticism

Romanticism in France,  quiz

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros,  Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa, 1804

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,  La Grande Odalisque, 1814 (and  essay),  quiz

Théodore Géricault

• Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19,  quiz
• Portraits of the Insane, 1822

Eugène Delacroix

• Scene of the Massacre at Chios, 1824
• The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827
• Liberty Leading the People (July 28, 1830), 1830,  quiz

François Rude,  La Marseillaise (The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), 1833-36

Thomas Cole 

• The Oxbow, 1836
• The Architect’s Dream, 1840
• The Hunter’s Return, 1845

George Catlin,  The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas, 1844-45

Emanuel Leutze,  Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

Frederic Edwin Church,  Niagara, 1857, and Heart of the Andes, 1859

Orientalism