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4 Results2025
The 鈥渕ost entertaining surface on earth,鈥� as the Late Enlightenment philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg claimed, is the human face.
Exhibition at Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Wien Explores the Shift from Enlightenment to Romantic Irrationalism
ArtDaily 10 Mar, 2025Decades before the French Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment saw a sudden outbreak of irrational sentiment, expressed in exuberant emotions, notions of spiritualistic gender switching, and a fragmented, heroic, and introspective view of art.
2021
Joseph Ducreux posed mid-yawn for this popular self-portrait at the Getty Museum.
Nina Amstutz opens her new history of Caspar David Friedrich鈥檚 landscapes boldly, with the same painting with which Joseph Leo Koerner began his now-canonical Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape.