Francesco Hayez
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Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories,
Self-Portrait at the age of 78 in 1869
Laokoon, 1812, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
Pietro Rossi, 1818–1820, Milan, priv. col.
The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet, 1823, Tremezzo, Villa Carlotta
Romanticism
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Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity, ima
Francesco Hayez
…Francesco Hayez (Italian: ; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits. Francesco Hayez was from a relatively…
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron
Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808
William Blake, The Little Girl Found, from Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794