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“Theodore Gericault was a French painter, perhaps the most influential artist of his time. Gericault was a seminal figure of the 19th Century Romantic movement in art.” ( Encarta) “Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct” is one of Gericault’s pa ....

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... Camille Corot.” One of Corots one of the landscape paintings, which is alike to Gericault’s is “View of Rome: The Bridge and Castel San’t Angelo with Cupola Of St. Peters. Corot, throughout the course of a two-year trip in Italy, where he scouted the countryside of around Rome, painted many of his landscapes. Romantics focused on nature, but for Gericault this was true, but he also understood a romantic had to go to “extraordinary lengths in trying to achieve a maximum of authenticity” (Janson, 431-36). We see this example in his own painting “Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct,” which was part of a set of three. The other two were calle ...