Neoclassicism

• excerpts from J.J. Winckelmann, On the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, translated by Henry Fuseli (1755)

Romanticism

• Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
• Ann-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Letter to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, c. 1802
• Francesco Goya - key dates
• John Constable - key dates
• JMW Turner - key dates
• Nature / Reverie: J.J. Rousseau
• Ut pictura poesis - quotes from Wordsworth and Constable
• Eugene Delacroix - excerpts from his Journal
• German Romantic quotes - CD Friedrich

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - poetry
  Poems related to his paintings.

The Aesthetic Movement

• A.C. Swinburne: "Before the Mirror" -- poem written for Whistler painting, Symphony in White #2: The Little White Girl, 1864.
• Whistler on art
• Walter Pater on the Mona Lisa

Realism/Impressionism

• Baudelaire on Art (Heroism of Modern Life, Dandyism)
• Rodin on Art
• Color theory - notes
• Charles Blanc, The Grammar of Painting...; chapter 1
• Charles Blanc, The Grammar of Painting...; chapter on color theory

Symbolism

• Baudelaire: "Correspondences"
• Quotes on Decadence
• Gustave Moreau - quotes
• Gauguin on art
• Christina Rossetti: "Who Shall Deliver Me?" -- poem which inspired Fernand Khnopff's painting I lock my door upon myself (in part, anyway)
• The Intruder (1890), by Maurice Maeterlinck.
  A short Symbolist play connected to Gauguin's Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?