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A man in a white shirt raises his arms before a firing squad at night as bodies lie nearby.

The Third of May 1808

Francisco de Goya, 1814

Museo Nacional del Prado

A man with a walking stick stands on a rocky summit above a vast landscape filled with fog.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1818

Hamburger Kunsthalle

A woman carrying the French tricolor leads armed citizens forward across a barricade.

Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Musée du Louvre

A dark steam tug tows a pale sailing warship across calm water beneath a glowing sunset.

The Fighting Temeraire

J. M. W. Turner, 1839

The National Gallery