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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Description: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
TitleThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Creator nameCornelius, Peter von
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1845
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsChalk
Dimensions472 × 588 cm
LocationUnknown
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsNeoclassicism (Art)Drawing, GermanFour Horsemen of the Apocalypse
StatusDestroyed; formerly National Gallery, Berlin
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Chapter VI: The German Manner and English History Painting
William Vaughan
Description: German Romanticism and English Art
German Romanticism and English Art
THE EFFECT of German art in determining new directions in historical painting in this country is perhaps the best-known aspect of the German influence. Certainly in view of the impact it had on determining the course of the Westminster Hall competitions and the subsequent fresco decorations of the Palace of Westminster, it was...
Author
William Vaughan
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 1979 by William Vaughan
Related print edition pages: pp.177-225
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00229.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20846&redirecttoanchor=46071
Chapter subject tags:History paintingEastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865Dyce, William, 1806-1864Art--Competitions--Great BritainArt, British--German influences
Chapter 10: Art and Propaganda
William Vaughan
Description: German Romantic Painting
German Romantic Painting
~THE OTHER SIDE of the Revivalist movement did not end so prettily. Its claims were greater and its disintegration more disturbing. The wistful regrets of Schwind and Richter in their latter years have little of the sense of tragedy expressed at the time by Cornelius, prevented by political vagaries from carrying out his grand mural cycle in Berlin, or by...
Author
William Vaughan
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright©1994 by William Vaughan
Related print edition pages: pp.215-238
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00058.014
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19708&redirecttoanchor=46071
Chapter subject tags:Romanticism--GermanyCornelius, Peter von, 1783-1867History paintingRethel, Alfred, 1816-1859Propaganda in art

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Description: Faust and Mephisto on the Brocken
Faust and Mephisto on the Brocken
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 05
Creator nameCornelius, Peter von
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1811
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsPen
Dimensions40.5 × 34 cm
LocationStädelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
Faust and Mephisto on the Brocken
Faust and Mephisto on the Brocken
Description: Title page to Goethes Faust
Title page to Goethes Faust
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 14
Creator nameCornelius, Peter von
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation datec. 1815
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsPen
Dimensions48 × 34.1 cm
LocationStädelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Title page to Goethes Faust
Title page to Goethes Faust
Description: Fingal
Fingal
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 05
Creator nameRunge, Philipp Otto
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1805
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsPen in gray over pencil
Dimensions39.8 × 24.1 cm
LocationHamburger Kunsthalle
https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/34215
Accession number34215
Fingal
Fingal
Description: Achilles and Skamandros
Achilles and Skamandros
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 05
Creator nameRunge, Philipp Otto
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1801
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsBrush in brown and white over pencil on brown primed paper
Dimensions52.7 × 67.3 cm
LocationHamburger Kunsthalle
https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/34231
Accession number34231
Achilles and Skamandros
Achilles and Skamandros
Description: Chriemhild discovering the Body of Siegfried
Chriemhild discovering the Body of Siegfried
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 14
Creator nameCornelius, Peter von
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1812–1817
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsPencil
LocationStädelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Chriemhild discovering the Body of...
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Description: Hall of the Gods (Göttersaal)
Hall of the Gods (Göttersaal)
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 14
Creator nameCornelius, Peter von
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1825–1826
Object typePainting
MaterialsFresco
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Hall of the Gods (Göttersaal)
Description: Faust's Encounter with Gretchen (Fausts Begegnung mit Gretchen)
Faust's Encounter with Gretchen (Fausts Begegnung mit Gretchen)
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 14
Creator nameCornelius, Peter von
Creator nationality/cultureGerman
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1811
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsGrey and grey-brown ink on thin wove paper
Dimensions38.8 × 35.5 cm
LocationStädelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/scene-upon-leaving-the-church
Accession number336
Faust's Encounter with Gretchen (Fausts...
Faust's Encounter with Gretchen (Fausts Begegnung mit Gretchen)

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