The Romantic Style in Art and Music

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Chapter 29

• The Romantic Style in Art and Music

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Major themes

• Individualism
• Patriotism
• Nationalism

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• Antoine-Jean Gros

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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napleon Bonaparte on Arcole
Bridge , 1797
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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting
the Plague-stricken at Jaffa, 1799
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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon on the Battlefield of
Eylau, 1808
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• Francisco Goya
• 1746-1828

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Francisco Goya. The Third of May, 1808.
http//www4.gvsu.edu/pozzig/european_civ2/images/g
oya.jpg
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Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces
Monsters, 1796-1797
http//www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/images/etching_goya
.sleepr.lg.jpg
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Francisco Goya, Colossus, 1808-1812 http//www.ib
iblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/goya.colossus.jpg
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Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring one of his Sons,
1819
http//www.artlex.com/ArtLex/g/images/grotes_goya.
saturn.lg.JPG
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• Théodore Géricault
• 1791-1824

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Théodore Géricault, An Officer of the Chasseurs
Commanding a Charge, 1812 http//www.wga.hu/art/g
/gericaul/1/101geric.jpg
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Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819
http//rock.uwc.edu/facultypages/pkudrna/New20Fol
der20(2)/nff0055.jpg
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• The Raft of the Medusa marks the first appearance
  in painting of 'the ugly' and thereby proclaims
  its scrupulous respect for the truth, however
  repulsive the truth might be. This concern for
  truth is integral to the Romantic temperament.
• Géricault chose a dramatic episode the wreck of
  the frigate Meduse, which had set off with a
  French fleet on an expedition to Senegal, and had
  been lost in July 1816.
• The most horrifying part of the shipwreck had
  been the drama of 149 wretches abandoned on a
  raft with only some casks of wine to live on, and
  the ensuing drunkenness and abominations. When
  the frigate Argus found the raft, after many
  days, she was only able to rescue fifteen
  survivors, of whom five died after being brought
  ashore. After some hesitation, Géricault chose
  this last episode the sighting of the Argus by
  the survivors on the raft.
• http//www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/gericaul/1
  /

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• Eugène Delacroix
• 1798-1863

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Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
http//www.griseldaonline.it/percorsi/5allegro_fot
o10.htm
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Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus,
1827
http//pds.egloos.com/pds/1/200411/30/95/b0043795_
4534354.jpg
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• In the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by the
  work of another Romantic, the poet Byron,
  Delacroix painted an apotheosis of cruelty. The
  composition, all reds and golds, portrays the
  holocaust of the legendary Assyrian king,
  destroying his possessions before committing
  suicide. The insurgents are attacking his castle
  all is lost stretched out on a sumptuous bed at
  the summit of an immense pyre, Sardanapalus
  orders eunuchs and palace officers to cut the
  throats of his women, his pages, and even his
  favourite dogs and horses none of the objects
  that have served his pleasure are to survive him.
  His women are placed on a level with his horses
  and dogs.
• http//www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/delacroi/2
  /204delac.html

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• Romantic Sculpture

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• Romantic Sculpture works created based on the
  imagination and appealing to the emotions.

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• François Rude, La Marseillaise (The Departure of
  the Volunteers of 1792), 1822-1836.
• A great winged figure personifying Liberty is
  shown above a group of men She is rushing
  forward, screaming, urging them on to battle.
• http//www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/scultpure
  Plastic/SculptureHistory/RomanticSculpture/012.jpg
  

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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Dance, 1865-69
http//vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th9_1000
/open-35-broadcast.htm
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• Mid-19th Century Architecture
• Neomedievalism

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• Revival of the Gothic Style

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Barry and Pugin, House of Parliament, London,
1840-1860
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Monet painted the Houses of Parliament, Sunset
(1904) where river, sky and Parliament all appear
to be aflame with the setting sun.
http//www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2005/J
an-Jun05/monet.htm
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Royal courts of Justice, London, 1874-82
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Votivkirche, Vienna, 1856-79
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• Neomedievalism in the US

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James Renwick, St. Patricks Cathedral, New York
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Renwick, Grace Church, New York
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Rewick, Smithsonian, Washington DC
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Yale University
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Yale University
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• The End