Monk by the Sea

Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism

1809

"A figure stands alone, engulfed in the vast expanse of sand and storm, as if facing a viod. His is a crisis in faith. How do I know God? he seems to ask. And how, in the face of this empty vastness, do I come to believe?"

The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons

J.M.W. Turner

Romanticism

1810

"The viewer has nowhere to stand, except in the path of this mammoth demonstration of nature's force. Suggests the exticiton of the very hope of man"

The Hay Wain

John Constable

Romanticism

1821

"A worshipper of nature, paints depictions of incidents and situations from common life. Image of contrasts. Billowing clouds and a bright field. Mighty oaks and cut hay. Gentle fisherman and hard working cart driver."

The Slave Ship

J.M.W. Turner

Romanticism

1840

The Stour Valley and Dedham Village

John Constable

Romanticism

1814

"A worshipper of nature, paints depictions of incidents and situations from common life"

The Wonderer Above the Mist

Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism

1818

Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth

J.M.W. Turner

Romanticism

1842

"I wished to show what such a scene was like. I got the sailors to lash me to the mast (of the Ariel) to observe it" The has been no evidence confirming a ship named Ariel.

The Oxbow

Thomas Cole

Romanticism

1836

"Boundary between those lands which the hands of man has touched and the undefiled wilderness. He paints himself into the scene. The bend is in the Connecticut River in Mass."