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1) Friedrich
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One of the key ideas that underpinned the Romantic Age was the notion of the sublime, and no Romantic painter captured the sublime more effectively than the German landscapist Caspar David Friedrich. Examines his tormented life and dramatic paintings.
2) Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the most enigmatic of all English Painters. Born into a brilliant family of Italian exiles, he announced his ambitions at the age of twenty. A romantic medieval flavor infused Rossetti's work.
3) Goya
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Examines the life and work of Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Relates his mid-life deafness and the turbulent events of his lifetime to the increasingly dark images he produced.
4) Courbet
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Gustave Courbet loved to present himself as a hard-drinking, radical-thinking peasant artist in mid-nineteenth century Paris, but his public image was largely a creation of his own. His famous peasant scenes were like nothing ever seen before.
5) Whistler
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The personal life of James Abbott McNeill Whistler may have been the most remarkable of any 19th century artist. Born an American, he spent his childhood in St. Petersburg, received his only formal art training in the West Point Military Academy.
6) Delacroix
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Examines the life and work of 19th century French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix.