Friedrich was the go-to for showing figures from behind – mainly, it transpires, because he wasn’t very good at faces ...

"Benjamin's Affinity: Goethe, Romanticism, and the Pure Problem of Criticism." From Walter Benjamin and Romanticism. Ed. Beatrice Hanssen and Andrew Benjamin. New York: Continuum, 2007. 180-196.

Italy and the Spain of Romantic imagination were places of longing for the art collector in the 19th century. Count Schack knew those places intimately. In addition to original works by German ...