The Best Romantics & Realists Documentaries

Art, Music & Design - 20 free documentaries about romantics & realists.

Start with Francisco Goya: The Romantic Painter Whose Art Turned Dark (50 min, Absolute History), then The Scandalous Affair That Rocked The Art World (50 min, Absolute History). All 20 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on romantics & realists is Turner by Franny Moyle.

• Francisco Goya: The Romantic Painter Whose Art Turned Dark | The Great Artists (50 min, Absolute History)
• The Scandalous Affair That Rocked The Art World | Great Artists: Dante Rossetti (50 min, Absolute History)
• Alain de Botton on Romanticism (73 min, The School of Life)
• Dark Goya (Full length): The later Works (51 min, Great Art Explained)
• John Constable: The radical landscape of The Hay Wain | National Gallery (31 min, The National Gallery)
• Great Art Explained: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• Why is this painting black and white? Boilly’s ‘A Girl at a Window’ | National Gallery (12 min, The National Gallery)
• The Black Paintings by Goya (Part One): Great Art Explained (17 min, Great Art Explained)
• HISTORY OF IDEAS - Romanticism (10 min, The School of Life)
• The Black Paintings by Goya (Part Two): Great Art Explained (16 min, Great Art Explained)
• Why did Queen Charlotte hate this portrait of herself? | Thomas Lawrence's 'Queen Charlotte' (14 min, The National Gallery)
• An enlightened experiment | Joseph Wright 'of Derby' | National Gallery (28 min, The National Gallery)
• Turner: Painting The Fighting Temeraire | National Gallery (26 min, The National Gallery)
• Turner's 'The Evening Star' (27 min, The National Gallery)
• Season 5, Episode 21: How Turner invented modern art (25 min, ZCZ Films)
• What's the story behind Turner's 'The Fighting Temeraire'? | National Gallery (12 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Bob and Roberta Smith on Turner | National Gallery (43 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Rana Begum on Turner's 'Ulysses deriding Polyphemus' | National Gallery (35 min, The National Gallery)
• Delacroix: Dead and Alive (54 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Shiraz Bayjoo on Turner | National Gallery (33 min, The National Gallery)

Top-Rated Books About Romantics & Realists

1. Turner by Franny Moyle - View on Amazon
2. Goya by Robert Hughes - View on Amazon
3. The Romantic Movement by Alain De Botton - View on Amazon
4. Delacroix by Barthélémy Jobert - View on Amazon