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Which Romantic art paintings are the most important and representative of this period of art history? Here is our choice of the 10 best.

thomas cole, 1842 | oil on canvas | 134.3x194.9 | despite the huge success of his american views cole could never rid himself of the old belief in the supremacy of content in art | his four-part series the voyage of life, for example, traces the journey of an intrepid hero along the river of life, reaching his apotheosis as his battered vessel comes to rest in the sea | national gallery of art, washington dc

Henry Fuseli The Nightmare. 1781. Romanticism. Oil on Canvas. Detroit Institute of Art.

Paul Delaroche - The Young Martyr, 1855 (detail)

Christ in the Garden of Olives (The Agony in the Garden)(detail, 1824-6) Eugène Delacroix