"My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. "
- J.M.W. Turner
"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may. Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." -John Constable
"The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment [...] with some degree of horror. [...] the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect."
-Edmund Burke
Click on this video for the presentation of The Shipwreck by William Turner, representing the Sublime in Romanticism.
G. MuscarĂ and S. Bona
Click on this video to see our presentation of Vesuvius in Eruption, representing the Sublime in Romanticism.
E. Romeo and A. Coffetti
Click on this video for the presentation of The Hay Wain by John Constable, representing the Beautiful in Romanticism.
G. Cittadini, D. Maffoni
Click on this video for the presentation of Wivenhoe Park by John Constable, representing the Beautiful in Romanticism.