This companion video outlines the history of the Romantic movement and illustrates the principles of Romantic and Classic art through the work of individual artists.

El Simbolismo apareció en Francia y Europa entre la década de 1880 y el principio del siglo veinte. Los simbolistas, fascinados por la mitología de la Antigüedad, intentaban escapar del reino del pensamiento racional impuesto por la ciencia. Deseaban trascender el mundo de lo visible y lo racional para alcanzar el mundo del pensamiento puro, coqueteando constantemente con los límites del inconsciente. Los franceses Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon,...

Figure majeure du mouvement romantique, le britannique William Blake (1757-1827) fut à la fois peintre, dessinateur, graveur et poète. L'artiste s'attachant à illustrer lui-même son Œuvre littéraire, les textes de Blake se développent suivant les lignes de ses gravures et dessins hallucinés, et deviennent, dès lors, de véritables enluminures. Inspiré des thèmes bibliques et prophétiques (Proverbes de l'Enfer, L'Évangile éternel, Les...

Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability. He was...

Goya es tal vez el pintor más accesible. Su arte, al igual que su vida, es un libro abierto. Nada ocultó a sus contemporáneos y les ofreció su obra con la misma franqueza. La puerta a su mundo no está oculta detrás de grandes dificultades técnicas. Fue la prueba de que si un hombre tiene la capacidad de vivir y multiplicar sus experiencias, de luchar y trabajar, puede producir grandes obras de arte sin el decoro clásico y la respetabilidad...

Founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the English painter Sir John Everett Millais was a principal figure of nineteenth century British art. Along with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he confronted the art establishment with a daring challenge to ignore 500 years of history and the corrupting influence of Raphael. A remarkable range of paintings sought a bold return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of the early Renaissance....

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) était un peintre du classicisme français qui prônait clarté et logique dans ses tableaux. Il peignait souvent de larges scènes mythologiques ou bibliques, mais il était également au premier rang de la peinture de paysage. Il fut premier peintre du roi Louis XIII, mais passa la majeure partie de sa vie à Rome. Sa manière devint le style officiel enseigné à l'Académie durant le reste du XVIIe siècle. Par la suite,...

The Victorian era produced many famous artists and styles. John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were part of the famous pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose willowy models were often seen in the works of several of the artists. One of the most famous was Elizabeth Siddall, an artist in her own right, who posed for Millais Ophelia, married to Rossetti, and posed for him, Holman Hunt and Walter Deverell. This fascinating book is a must for everyone...

Gobeklitepe, the oldest temple in the world, awakened from its 12,000 years of sleep to tell hacker Kamil a secret. A secret, locked behind the sealed tongue of its guardian, that can only be, heard by to the wise and capable... Kamil is, forced to unravel Gobeklitepe's mysteries, when a stranger from the southeastern Turkish town of Urfa arrives on his doorstep, asking to buy his house. Kamil, the only Jew left in ancient Carian city of Milas, just...

A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake. Poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper's grave, Blake now occupies a unique position as an artist who unites and attracts...