Continuously in the worldwide repertory for 164 years, it epitomizes Romantic art and has been gracefully preserved and updated over the decades.

If one had to name a "German" trait in early Romantic art, this might be it.

Romantic art addressed its audiences directly and personally with what was intended to be felt as the personal voice of the artist.

But then domesticity in general is a key subject in German Romantic art.

The city of Milan later emerged as a major centre of 19th-century Romantic art.

After all, jazz is derived from the blues, a music that is on intimate terms with grief and loss - the signature concerns of Romantic art.

By the time Tchaikovsky's opera was performed, in 1884, Mazeppa had long since become a magic name in Romantic art.

Similarly, the art topic assigned was Romantic art in the European tradition.

Those monumental paintings by the man who epitomized French Romantic art hang where they always do, in the Louvre.

The work of many artists began to reveal trends towards the Romantic art which would follow a few years later.