The Tale of the Burgomaster of Cologne

~THE MEANS by which the English became aware of contemporary German art are of interest, not simply because they demonstrate the degree to which certain aspects of this art were by the 1840s common knowledge, but also because they show a process of selectivity at work which suggests a directed concern. Indeed one might say that the significant feature was not so much...

~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...