The article is about the uncertain frontiers between the neoclassic and the romantic regarding landscape, grace and the feeling of the beautiful. It doesn't intend to deny the headings, which make sense until nowadays, but shows how much a lot was scrambled. Regarding the reflexion and practice of landscape art, the difference is clear; but the German historian Winckelmann, main figure in the neoclassical canon, surprises when showing the possibility of rupture with the academic normativeness of frankly objective character, subordinating the beautiful to a reached-by-few operation of subjective character concerning the gracefulness/beauty and the feeling of the beautiful, what partly justifies his warm welcome among exponents of romanticism as Chateaubriand and Girodet.
keywords:
landscape; grace; feeling of the beautiful; Neoclassicism; Romanticism
