Romanticism
Romanticism was an early 19th century, pan-European movement in the arts and philosophy. The term derives from the Romances of the Middle Ages, and refers to an idealization of reality. In the late 18th century, it came to mean anti-Classical and represented a trend towards the picturesque and the Gothic, and a love of nostalgia, mystery and drama. |
Bob Kessel with his Art History paintings
 |
LOVERS by Bob Kessel after Francesco Hayez
 |
FISHERMAN AND SIREN by Bob Kessel after Frederic Lord Leighton
 |
SEASIDE GIRL by Bob Kessel after Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
 |
PAOLO AND FRANCESCA by Bob Kessel after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
 |
ODYSSEUS by Bob Kessel after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
 |
MARAT by Bob Kessel after Jacques-Louis David
 |
LIBERTY by Bob Kessel after Eugene Delacroix
 |
BANKS OF THE SEINE by Bob Kessel after Gustave Courbet
 |
NYMPHS by Bob Kessel after William Bouguereau
 |
SOMMEIL by Bob Kessel after Gustave Courbet
 |
FLAMING JUNE by Bob Kessel after Frederick Lord Leighton
 |
L'ORIGINE DU BONHEUR by Bob Kessel after Gustave Courbet
DREAMING GIRL by Bob Kessel after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
LE BAIN TURK by Bob Kessel after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Bob Kessel is an American artist nationally known for his illustrations which appear in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Tokyo Journal, Japan Times, Berkeley Monthly, San Francisco Metro Magazine, Texas Monthly, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Milken Review and many other national publications. His fine art work is in numerous private and museum collections. His prints are sold nationwide through Mystic Seaport Museum as part of the "Great Illustrators of America Print Collection". |
The pictures on this website are available as limited edition fine art prints. For more information on purchasing these prints contact: |
This website is copyrighted by Bob Kessel © 2007
Any unauthorized use of the content contained in this site is prohibited
Famous artists depicted in the Bob Kessel Art History series:
Giovanni Bellinii, Pietro Berninii, Pierre Bonnard, Sandro Botticelli, François Boucher, William Bouguereau, Caravaggio, Marc Chagall, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Courbet, Jacques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix, Otto Dix, Paul Gauguin, Hendrick Goltzius, Francisco de Goya, Francesco Hayez, Erich Heckel, Ando Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Pieter de Hooch, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jan van Kessel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Willem de Kooning, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ferdinand Leger, Frederic Lord Leighton, Edouard Mant, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jean Francois Millet, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Nicolas Poussin, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Karl Schmidt-Rottloff, Peter Paul Rubens, Georges Seurat, Georges de La Tour, Titian, Kitagawa Utamaro, Diego Velazquez, Jan Vermeer, Max Weber