robespierre and the tennis court oath (june 20, 1789) sketch by jacques-louis david

Robespierre and the Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789)

Sketch by Jacques-Louis David

Storming the Bastille (1789)

The Guillotine

Heads on Pikes

Execution of Louis XVI

Jacques-Louis David“Brutus Returning Home after Having Sentenced His Sons for

Plotting a Tarquinian Restoration and Conspiring against Roman Freedom; the Lictors Bring their Bodies to be Buried”

David, Young Napoleon (1797)

David, Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2

December 1804

David, Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2

December 1804 (detail)

Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

Eugene Delacroix, Massacre at Chios

Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau (1808)

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)

Thomas Phillips, Byron in Albanian Dress (1835)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Brothers Grimm (Jacob: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm (1786-1859)

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

William Blake (1757-1827)

A Vision of the Last Judgement (1808)

Joseph Turner, Snowstorm, Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)

Joseph Turner, Fire at Sea (1834)

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823)

John Constable, Hay Wain (1821)

Caspar David Friedrich, Traveller Looking Over a Sea of Fog

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)