Or did romanticism simply diagnose the problems? In conversations about art today, romanticism has a dusty, discredited air. Weren’t Courbet, Manet and Menzel already revolting against romanticism ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art ... of John Constable nor with ...