Artists and Artworks
- 5.1 - Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, Coalbrookdale at Night, 1801
- 5.2 - Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Ancient City of Agrigentum, 1787
- 5.3 - Joseph Anton Koch, Apollo and the Thessalonian Shepherds, 1835
- 5.4 - Joseph Mallord William Turner, Devil’s Bridge, 1802
- 5.5 - Joseph Wright of Derby, Eruption of Vesuvius, 1776
- 5.6 - John Sell Cotman, Chirk Aqueduct, c.1806-07
- 5.7 - Joseph Mallord William Turner, Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, 1812
- 5.8 - Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1844
- 5.9 - John Constable, Hay Wain, 1821
- 5.10 - John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831
- 5.11 - Camille Corot, Colosseum Seen Through the Basilica of Constantine, 1825
- 5.12 - Camille Corot, Chartres Cathedral, 1830
- 5.13 - Théodore Rousseau, Landscape with a Clump of Trees, c.1844
- 5.14 - Caspar David Friedrich, Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altar), 1808
- 5.15 - Caspar David Friedrich, Traveler in a Sea of Fog, 1818
- 5.16 - Karl Blechen, Sanssouci Palace, 1843-45
- 5.17 - Karl Blechen, Bathers in the Park at Terni, 1833
- 5.19 - Thomas Cole, Course of Empire: Arcadian State (2nd in series), 1833-36
- 5.20 - George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845
- 5.21 - Albert Bierstadt, Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863
Readings
Andrews, Malcolm. The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989
Barrell, John. The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting, 1730-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980
Bermingham, Ann. Landscape and Ideology: the English Rustic Tradition 1740-1860. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986
Green, Nicholas. The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993
Hamilton, James. Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists, 1815-1860. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2001
Hemingway, Andrew. Landscape and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992
Herbert, Robert. Barbizon Revisited. New York: Clarke and Way, 1962
Kriz, Kay Dian. The Idea of the English Landscape Painter. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1997
Miller, Angela. The Empire of the Eye. Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1993
Mitchell, Timothy. Art and Science in German Landscape Painting 1770-1840. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1993
Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Saul, Nicholas. The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Vaughan, William. German Romantic Painting. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1980
Subtitle
SHIFTING FOCUS: ART AND THE NATURAL WORLD
Web Resources
Map of Railway Growth in German States 1837-66
Images
Grave of Barbizon painter Charles Daubigny at Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
Grave of Charles Pigeon, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. The most awesome grave in the cemetery!
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1830-61, rue Bonaparte, Paris (6th arrondissement). Jacques Duban architect.
Burlington House, London. Home of the Royal Academy of Arts since 1867.
July Column, Place de la Bastille, Paris. Names of those who died in the 3 days of battles in Paris in July 1830 are inscribed.