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The Romantic Hero
Bierstadt, Lander’s Peak (1863)
David,
NapoleonCrossingthe GreatSaintBernard Pass(1800)
Romanticism: 19th century
Imagination/subjectivity (anti-rationalism) Nature (beautiful/sublime/picturesque) Nationalism (spirit of the Folk) Nostalgia (the Gothic, the Medieval) Exoticism Heroism and Hero worship
Nationalism
“an ideology (or belief system) grounded in a people’s sense of cultural and political unity” (Fiero 699)
Romantic Hero
Creative, subjective, and egotistical The Romantic artist himself/herself is a hero
Rises above but inspires the common person
Pushes limits of morality through his/her own subjective experience
Heroism and Hero Worship
Nationalist Hero: Napoleon
Promethean Hero (Byron’s Prometheus/Frankenstein/American Abolitionists)
Faustian Hero
Goethe’s Faust
Gericault, The Raft of the “Medusa” (1818)
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)
David, The Oath of the Horatii (1785)
Bartholdi,Liberty Enlightening the World(1871-84)
