The Spirit of Justice

~The interest taken by English painters and designers during the early Victorian era in certain aspects of German Romantic art is undoubtedly the most spectacular event in the history of English responses to the pictorial production of that country. While many artists of German origin have, since the time of Dürer and Holbein, been both influential and...

A black silhouetted against the sky has a place of key importance in Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, one of the greatest and most enigmatic paintings of the early nineteenth century ...