Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...

A century ago last month Victor Hugo’s Hernani was presented in the Theatre Français. Violent young men with red velvet waistcoats shouted themselves hoarse in the galleries, banged the heads of ...

HISTORIANS of music are accustomed to speak of the first half or three quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven — ...

"A check-list of some Romantic artists of or related to the British School with brief bibliographical details of works for further reading": p. 199-231. https://siris ...