Thursday, Dec 11, 2014
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Romanticism
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The Romantic Movement
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Swept across Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century
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Influenced religion, art, music, and philosophy
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Inspired a desire for freedom of thought, feeling, and action
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Key Characteristics
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The primacy of emotion
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The Enlightenment stressed reason as a way to understand nature.
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Romantics rejected reason, and instead stressed emotion, intuition, and subjective feelings.
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A different past
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Neoclassical artists looked to Greece and Rome for models of order and clarity.
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Romantics looked to the medieval period for models of chivalrous heroes, miraculous events, and unsolved mysteries.
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A new view of nature
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Enlightened thinkers relied on the scientific method to study and understand nature. They viewed nature as a well-ordered machine.
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Romantics preferred to contemplate the beauty of nature. They were inspired by raging rivers, great storms, and majestic mountains veiled in mist.
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Key Romantic Writers, Artists, and Composers
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Writers
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, lyrical ballads
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Friedrich von Schiller, Ode to Joy
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
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Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
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Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Jacob and William Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales
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Artists
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Casper David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Mist
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Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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John Constable, The Hay Wain
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J.M.W. Turner, Hannibal Crossing the Alps
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Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808
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Composers
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Ludwig von Beethoven, Ninth Symphony
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Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelung