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Romanticism
Late 18th-Early 19th Centuries
• Romanticism emerged as a reaction to the neo-classical style and emphasized emotion rather than reason.
• Romantic artists & authors extolled the virtues of feeling and simple piety over the artifacts of learning & civilization. They especially liked nature.
• Romantic artists/writers valued individualism, the power of the inner spirit, and heroic traits.
• Influenced art, literature, religion and music• Key characteristics..
1. Primacy of Emotion
The Dreamer Caspar David Friedrich, 1835
2. New view of Nature:
• 1. Not a well-ordered machine, as Enlightened thinkers viewed it.
• 2. Rather it was inspiring, beautiful, to be contemplated not mastered.
• 3. Nature was overpowering to humans• 4. Humans were best inspired in nature;
country life was to be enjoyed. Cities weren’t so great.
The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840
Moonrise Over the Sea: Caspar David Friedrich, 1821
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage--Italy, 1832, Joseph MW
Turner
Caspar David Friedrich--Chalk Cliffs on Rugen
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Friedrich--Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
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3. Distrust of Science and Technology
Rain, Steam, and SpeedJoseph Mallord William Turner,
1844
4. Greece/Rome out; Medieval themes/gothic stuff
in• 1. Mysteries, heroes, stories of the
middle ages offered greater emotional appeal.
• 2. Noe-gothic architecture
Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825
Winter Landscape with Church
Caspar David Friedrich, 1811
5. The Exotic and the Macabre
Saturn DevoursHis Son
Francisco Goya,1819-1823
6. Nationalism
Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830
The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815
7. Christian mysticism--interest in Catholicism
The Cathedral
Gaspar DavidFriedrich,
1818
8. Fascination with the Exotic
Eugene Delacroix--The Death of Sardanapalus
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Delacroix--Women in Algiers in Their Apartment
Romantic Writers/Novelists
Goethe--The Sorrow of Young Werther
• 1. Individualism and emotions reign supreme.
Stories of the past
• Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson--Fairy tales of the past
• Walter Scott--Ivanhoe--medieval English knights
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• 1.Medieval English knights
Gothic Literature
• 1. Bizarre, chilling stories.
• 2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (critique of science?)
• 3. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
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• Believed to be a direct expression of the soul• Poets could reveal the invisible world to
others• Some themes:
– Revolt against oppressive laws and customs (Percy Shelley--Prometheus Unbound)
– Love of nature • William Wordsworth--nature was a mirror for humans to
look to for information about themselves
Critics of science
• Wordsworth-- nature not a cold object of study. Alive and sacred
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein--the dangers of science
Wordsworth--Tintern Abbey• If I should be, where I no more can hear• Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes
these gleams• Of past existence, wilt thou then forget• That on the banks of this delightful
stream• We stood together; and that I, so long• A worshipper of Nature, hither came,• Unwearied in that service: rather say• With warmer love, oh! with far deeper
zeal• Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget,• That after many wanderings, many years• Of absence, these steep woods and lofty
cliffs,• And this green pastoral landscape, were
to me• More dear, both for themselves, and for
thy sake.
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More Romantic Poetry
• 1. Lord Byron--the “Byronic hero” as described in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
• 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge--The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
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Ludwig Von Beethoven
• Influenced by the French Revolution
• Music a reflection of inner feelings
• Studied under Haydn• Third Symphony intended for
Napoleon• Beethoven the bridge from
the classical era to the Romantic
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Hector Berlioz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL8df-r2drM
• Symphonie Fantastique
• Emotion, mood, sound effects
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