And for those who know the tale, this gravity-defying, wondrous landscape retains a sense of bittersweet beauty, a faultless paradise somehow infused with lost love.
Swiss-born English painter Henry Fuseli leads the first wave, which includes Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and Goya a generation inspired by Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante's "Inferno, " Milton's "Paradise Lost" and English Gothic novels.