1. Robespierre and the Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789) Sketch by Jacques-Louis David

2. Storming the Bastille (1789)

3. The Guillotine

4. Heads on Pikes

5. Execution of Louis XVI

6. Jacques-Louis David “ Brutus Returning Home after Having Sentenced His Sons for Plotting a Tarquinian Restoration and Conspiring against Roman Freedom; the Lictors Bring their Bodies to be Buried”

7. David, Young Napoleon (1797)

8. David, Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804

9. David, Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804 (detail)

10. Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

11. Eugene Delacroix, Massacre at Chios

12. Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau (1808)

13. Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)

14. Thomas Phillips, Byron in Albanian Dress (1835)

15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

17. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

18. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Brothers Grimm (Jacob: 1785-1863 and Wilhelm (1786-1859)

19. Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

20. William Blake (1757-1827)

21. A Vision of the Last Judgement (1808)

22. Joseph Turner, Snowstorm, Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)

23. Joseph Turner, Fire at Sea (1834)

24. John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823)

25. John Constable, Hay Wain (1821)

26. Caspar David Friedrich, Traveller Looking Over a Sea of Fog

27. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)