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Thursday, Dec 11, 2014

 

  1. Romanticism

 

  1. The Romantic Movement

 

  1. Swept across Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century
  2. Influenced religion, art, music, and philosophy
  3. Inspired a desire for freedom of thought, feeling, and action

 

  1. Key Characteristics

 

  1. The primacy of emotion
    1. The Enlightenment stressed reason as a way to understand nature.
    2. Romantics rejected reason, and instead stressed emotion, intuition, and subjective feelings.

 

  1. A different past
    1. Neoclassical artists looked to Greece and Rome for models of order and clarity.
    2. Romantics looked to the medieval period for models of chivalrous heroes, miraculous events, and unsolved mysteries.

 

  1. A new view of nature
    1. Enlightened thinkers relied on the scientific method to study and understand nature. They viewed nature as a well-ordered machine.
    2. Romantics preferred to contemplate the beauty of nature. They were inspired by raging rivers, great storms, and majestic mountains veiled in mist.

 

  1. Key Romantic Writers, Artists, and Composers

 

  1. Writers
    1. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, lyrical ballads
    2. Friedrich von Schiller, Ode to Joy
    3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
    4. Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
    5. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    6. Jacob and William Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales

 

  1. Artists
    1. Casper David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Mist
    2. Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
    3. John Constable, The Hay Wain
    4. J.M.W. Turner, Hannibal Crossing the Alps
    5. Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808

 

 

  1. Composers
    1. Ludwig von Beethoven, Ninth Symphony
    2. Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelung



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