Between the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth century, an artistic and intellectual movement took place in Europe. Romanticism involved the portrayal of the beauty of nature, focusing on landscapes, weather phenomenons and dramatic colours.
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. RosaliePainting by Albert Bierstadt
In the mid 18th century, romanticism in landscapes was portrayed through paintings. Artists like Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and Caspar David Friedrich are important figures in the Romantic movement, creating paintings that captured melodramatic scenery to initiate emotion, and a feeling of awe in the viewer.
