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Spanish bodegones from the same period, the meditative interiors of \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/rembrandt-van-rijn\"\u003eRembrandt van Rijn\u003c\/a\u003e, and the Caravaggesque tenebrism of Italian and Netherlandish painters all belong to its core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth century reopened the field through the Gothic Revival, the visual counterpart of the Gothic novel. Architecture, decorative arts, and book illustration carried the idiom through to the late Victorian period, where it merged with Pre-Raphaelite literary subjects and the early Symbolist atmosphere. Late Romanticism's preoccupation with ruin, monastery, and weather, visible in \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/caspar-david-friedrich\"\u003eCaspar David Friedrich\u003c\/a\u003e, sits firmly in the same lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe prints gathered here cover all those phases: anatomical plates and antiquarian engravings, vanitas reproductions, Gothic Revival ornament, and Symbolist literary illustration. The collection sits between the gallery's \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/baroque-art-prints\"\u003eBaroque \u0026amp; Chiaroscuro\u003c\/a\u003e holdings, the technical and atmospheric foundation of the look, and the \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/pre-raphaelite-art-prints\"\u003ePre-Raphaelites \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/a\u003e selection, the late Victorian reservoir of imagery that Dark Academia reaches for most often.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","products":[{"product_id":"barnaby-rudge-helping-lead-the-gordon-riots-by-charles-green-1884-wall-art-print-fine-art-reproduction-museum-quality-decor-poster","title":"Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots by Charles Green 1884, Wall Art Print, Fine Art Reproduction, Museum Quality Decor, Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis dramatic narrative scene depicts Barnaby Rudge, the titular character from Charles Dickens' 1841 novel, leading the rioters during the infamous Gordon Riots of 1780. 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