This course examines the development of art in Germany from the spiritualism of Romanticism (Caspar David Friedrich and the Nazarenes) to explorations of sexuality, Darwinian theory, and the ...

Italy and the Spain of Romantic imagination were places of longing for the art collector in the 19th century. Count Schack knew those places intimately. In addition to original works by German ...

Many representatives of literary and philosophical German Romanticism held music to be the highest and most expressive, quintessentially Romantic art form, able to convey what cannot be expressed in ...

Early German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense ... a synthesis of post-Kantian idealism and Platonic realism that gives a decisive role to art. The book offers a persuasively ...