Romanticism emerged in the late eighteenth century as a direct challenge to the Enlightenment's confidence in reason and order. Where Neoclassicism prized restraint, symmetry, and rational clarity, the Romantics pursued raw emotional experience, the terror and beauty of untamed nature, and the authority of individual imagination. The movement drew early…
Works of Romanticism are held in 339 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Yale Center for British Art.
Key artists
Work by these painters is spread across the museums listed below.
🇦🇺 Australia
1 museum
Also in AustraliaNational Gallery of Victoria (24)
🇧🇪 Belgium
1 museum
Also in BelgiumRoyal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (26)
🇫🇮 Finland
1 museum
Also in FinlandFinnish National Gallery (141)
🇫🇷 France
6 museums
Also in FranceLouvre (201)Eugène-Delacroix National Museum (82)Musée d'Orsay (36)Condé Museum (31)Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (26)Nantes Museum of Arts (22)
🇩🇪 Germany
4 museums
Also in GermanyHamburger Kunsthalle (49)Alte Nationalgalerie (32)Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (27)Bavarian State Painting Collections (23)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
2 museums
Also in NetherlandsMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen (89)Amsterdam Museum (30)
🇳🇴 Norway
1 museum
Also in NorwayNational Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (256)
🇷🇺 Russia
2 museums
Also in RussiaHermitage Museum (42)Russian Museum (24)
🇪🇸 Spain
1 museum
Also in SpainMuseo del Prado (142)
🇸🇪 Sweden
1 museum
Also in SwedenNationalmuseum (53)
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1 museum
Also in SwitzerlandKunsthaus Zürich (27)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
13 museums
Also in United KingdomVictoria and Albert Museum (194)Tate (157)National Gallery (154)Royal Collection (65)Fitzwilliam Museum (63)Manchester Art Gallery (57)National Trust (52)Birmingham Museums Trust (43)Wallace Collection (40)National Galleries Scotland (31)Walker Art Gallery (29)Lady Lever Art Gallery (26)Royal Academy of Arts (24)
🇺🇸 United States
16 museums
Also in United StatesNational Gallery of Art (2650)Metropolitan Museum of Art (1210)Yale Center for British Art (505)Museum of Fine Arts Boston (75)Clark Art Institute (48)Smithsonian American Art Museum (42)Philadelphia Museum of Art (41)Art Institute of Chicago (40)Detroit Institute of Arts (38)Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (33)Walters Art Museum (31)Yale University Art Gallery (29)Gilcrease Museum (28)Buffalo Bill Center of the West (27)Cleveland Museum of Art (27)Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (26)
289 more museums hold Romanticism works with smaller collections, not listed here.
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Romanticism works are held in 339 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Yale Center for British Art.How many museums have Romanticism artworks?
339 museums worldwide hold works by Romanticism artists.Which is the best museum for Romanticism?
National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. holds the largest Romanticism collection with 2650 works.