Romanticism

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ROMANTICISM
Adapted from presentation by Susan M.
PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
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A Growing Distrust of Reason
Early19c
Enlightenment
Romanticism
Society is good, curbing violent impulses!
Civilization corrupts!

• The essence of human experience is subjective and
  emotional.
• Human knowledge is small compared to other great
  historical forces.
• Individual rights are dangerous efforts at
  selfishness ? the community is more important.

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Wandering Above the Sea of FogCaspar David
Friedrich,1818
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The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835
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Solitary Tree Caspar David Friedrich, 1823
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An Avalanche in the AlpsPhilip James de
Loutherbourg, 1803
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Sunset After a Storm On the Coast of Sicily
Andreas Achenbach, 1853
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The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840
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Tree of CrowsCaspar David Friedrich, 1822
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The Wreck of the Hope (aka The Sea of Ice)Caspar
David Friedrich, 1821
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Shipwreck Joseph Turner, 1805
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The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819
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The Eruption of Vesuvius - John Martin
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Isaac Newton William Blake, 1795
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Dr. Frankensteins Adam Eve??
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Rain, Steam, and SpeedJoseph Mallord William
Turner, 1844
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Rain, Steam, Speed(details)
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The Slave ShipJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1842
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The Slave Ship(details)
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Flatford Mill John Constable, 1817
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The Corn FieldJohn Constable,1826
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The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821
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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishops GroundJohn
Constable, 1825
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Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825
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Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David
Friedrich, 1811
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British Houses of Parliament1840-1865
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Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David
Friedrich, 1817-1819
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Abbey in an Oak ForestCaspar David Friedrich,
1809-1810
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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with
the SunWilliam Blake, 1808-1810
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Stonehenge - John Constable, 1836
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Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781
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Procession of Flagellants on Good
FridayFrancisco Goya, 1793
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Saturn DevoursHis SonFrancisco Goya,1819-1823
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Greece on the Ruins of MissolonghiEugène
Delacroix, 1827
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Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830
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Detail of theMusket BearerDelacroix, himself
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His Majestys Ship, Victory(Trafalgar) - John
Constable, 1806
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Napoleonat theSt. BernardPass David,1803
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The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815
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Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841
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Grand Canal, VeniceJoseph Mallord William
Turner, 1835
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Massacre of Chios - Eugène Delacroix, 1824
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The Fanatics of TangiersEugène Delacroix,
1837-1838
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The Sultan of Morocco and His EntourageEugène
Delacroix, 1845
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Women of Algiers in Their ApartmentEugène
Delacroix, 1834
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The Bullfight - Francisco Goya
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Charge of the Mamelukes, May 2nd, 1808Francisco
Goya, 1814
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God as the Architect - William Blake, 1794
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The CathedralGaspar DavidFriedrich,1818
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The Cathedral(details)Gaspar
DavidFriedrich,1818
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Romantic Literature
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The Great Age of the Novel

• Gothic Novel Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  (1847) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  (1847)
• Historical Novel Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
  (1819) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1862)
  The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas
  (1844)

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The Great Age of the Novel

• Science Fiction Novel Frankenstein - Mary
  Shelley (1817) Dracula Bramm Stoker (1897)

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Other Romantic Writers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms Fairy
Tales (1814-1816)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
(1806-1832)
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The Romantic Poets

• Percy Shelley
• Lord Byron (George Gordon)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Wordsworth
• John Keats
• William Blake

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George Gordons(Lord Byron)Poem ThePrisonerof
Chillon
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MaryShelley Frankenstein
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Romanticism The Great Paradox
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The Political Implications

• Romanticism could reinforce the greatest themes
  of political liberalism or political
  conservatism.
• Contributed to growing nationalist movements.
• The concepts of the Volk and the Volkgeist.
• The uniqueness of cultures was emphasized.

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Bibliographic Sources

• CGFA A Virtual Art Museum.
  http//cgfa.sunsite.dk/fineart.htm
• Romanticism on Artchive.
  http//artchive.com/artchive/romanticism.html