Evening: Landscape With An Aqueduct: Typical Example Of Romantic Art

Part I of Essay
“Theodore Gericault was a French painter, perhaps the most influential artist of his time. Gericault was a seminal figure of the 19th Century Romantic movement in art.” ( Encarta) “Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct” is one of Gericault’s painting, that was finished some ....

Part II of Essay
.... of a two-year trip in Italy, where he scouted the countryside of around Rome, painted many of his landscapes. Romantics focused on nature, but for Gericault this was true, but he also understood a romantic had to go to “extraordinary lengths in trying to achieve a maximum of authenticity” (Janson, 431-36). We see this example in his own painting “Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct,” which was part of a set of three. The other two were called “Noon: Landscape With a Roman Tomb” and “Morning: Landscape With Fisherman.” Like romantics in thi ....