How the Queen Had the Hall Burnt Down

IT HAS already been seen in the previous chapter how the influence of Retzsch mingled with that of the revivalists in England in the 1840s, so that many of his designs and motifs became recast in a more schematic setting, while the expressive physiognomies of his protagonists became replaced by the graver gestures of...

~SCHINKEL’S painting Castle by a River (Plate XXVIII) was the outcome of a remarkable competition. According to an eyewitness, the landscape painter Carl Wilhelm Gropius, the design for it was sketched out at two consecutive...