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19th Century Romanticism
LiteratureArt
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Four distinctive characteristics:
1. Heavy emphasis on emotion and passion
2. Emphasis on the individual
3. Celebration of nature 4. Glorified the past
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Ingres, Grande Odalisque
•Delacroix, Odalisque
Odalisques
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Ingres Delacroix
Paganini
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•David
Delacroix
Horses
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Caricature of Delacroix and Ingres jousting in front of the Institut de France
Delacroix, “Line is color!” Ingres, “Color is Utopia. Long live line!”
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Caspar David Friedrich
Germany 1774-1840
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Abbey in an Oak Forest—1809-10
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
—1818
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Chalk Cliffs of Rugen-1818
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JMW Turner
England 1775-1851
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The Fighting Téméraire—1838
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Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway-1844
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Pre-Raphaelites
England 1848
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones
England 1833-1898
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The Beguiling of
Merlin—1874
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
England 1836-1912
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Expectations—1885
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
England 1828-1882
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The Beloved—1865-66
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
France 1825-1905
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The Shepherdess
—1899
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Theodore Gericault
France 1791-1824
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Officer of the Imperial Guard—1812
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The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19
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Interviewed survivors
Hired ship’s carpenter to make raft
Bought corpses and body parts to study
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Painted his friend, Delacroix, as figure on raft
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Wanted to create
melodrama
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Eugene Delacroix
France 1798-1863
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The Bark of Dante, 1821
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Delacroix,
After Rubens’
Marie d’Medici Arriving at Marseilles
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The Bark of Dante, Delacroix
Marie d’Medici Arriving at Marseilles, Rubens’
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The Massacre at Chios, 1821
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Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1824
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The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827
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Liberty Leading the People, 1832
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The Lion Hunt, 1832
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Odalisque, 1832
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Women of Algiers—1834
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Manet, The Bark of Dante
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Picasso, Women of Algiers
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Fantin-Latour, Homage to Delacroix
ManetWhistler
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Romanticism1750-1850
A. J.J. Rousseau: “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains!”
B. A desire for freedom of thought & feeling through imagination rather than reason
C. A shift from reason to feeling, from calculation to intuition
D. Reimagining of Middle Ages as a time of mystery & fantasy
E. Sublime: feelings of awe mixed with terror (most intense emotions are evoked by pain or fear)
F. A taste for the fantastic, and the occult
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19th Century Romanticism
Art