His paintings are pleasant enough to appeal to ... John Piper is now probably Britain’s leading romantic realist, but he has come to this eminence the long way round. Growing up in London ...

Week 5: The rise of romanticism We will look at the birth of romanticism in painting by following the career of Goya, who began as a rococo artist, became a neoclassic artist, and ended his long ...

Classical antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -Greece, Italy and the Spain of Romantic imagination were places of longing for the art collector in the 19th century. Count Schack knew ...