the wreck of the hope david caspar friedrich, 1824

The Wreck of the Hope David Caspar Friedrich, 1824

Francisco GoyaSaturn Devouring his Son

1820 – 1823 Oil on plaster57 1/2 inches x 32 3/4 inches

Museo del Prado, Madrid Spain

Blake, William (b. Nov. 28, 1757, London--d. Aug. 12, 1827, London) English poet, painter, engraver; one

of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. The most famous of Blake's lyrical poems is Auguries of

Innocence, with its memorable opening stanza:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your

hand And Eternity in an hour.

Ancient of Days (God as an Architect)

Joseph Mallard William TurnerThe Slave Ship,

1840,3ft x 4ft,

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

1812 poem, written by Turner:Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay; you angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds

Declare the Typhoon's coming. Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard

The dead and dying ne'er heed their chains Hope, Hope, Fallacious Hope!

Where is thy market now?

Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa 1819 Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Bridge at Narni, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1826-27), oil on canvas, Ottawa, Canada National Gallery

Eugene DelacroixLiberty Leading the People

This painting celebrated the day, during the 1830 Revolution, that the people rose and fought for their liberty. Delacroix used the painting as a

political poster for the revolution. Delacroix was a member of the National Gaurd, and he placed himself into the picture as the man on the left

wearing a top-hat (close-up shown below).

Frederick Church,"Niagara Falls" (1857).Nearly 8 ft. wide.

George Inness, Delaware Water Gap

Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe 1770; Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778http://www.nga.gov/feature/watson/story1.shtm

Charles Wilson Peale, Self Portrait of the Artist in His Museum, 1822

Rembrandt PealeRubens Peale with a Geranium,1801

Gilbert Stuart American, 1755–1828) George Washington (the Athenaeum portrait), 1796

Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849,

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836 Thomas Cole

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845George Caleb Bingham