Caspar David Friedrich: Exemplar of Romantic Painting Speaker: Kevin N. Moll Historians generally use the term “Romanticism” to account for the artistic aspirations reflected in music, painting, and literature during the 1800s. Our concert halls still resound with the works of famous Romantic composers—Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, and Wagner. Well-known Romantic writers include Lord Byron, Victor …