Romanticism End of 18th century – Mid 19th century
RomanticismEnd of 18th century Mid 19th century
The Romantic artists wanted to reprepresent the following subjects:Passion, love, intense feelingsExotism (Ottoman Empire, Egypt, North of Africa, Spain)Ancient civilizations: Greece, RomeMiddle AgesNationalismLibertyDarkness and mysteries
Nature: nature represented as something violent and turbulent. The wanderer above the sea of fog. Caspar David Friedrich, 1818.
ExotismDeath of Sardanapalus. Eugene Delacroix, 1828.
Royal Pavilion, Nash, 1787
NationalismLiberty Leading the People. Delacroix, 1830
Middle Ages and History
The HorrorThe Raft of The Medusa, Gricault, 1818
Engravings of Goya: The Disasters of the War.
Technical CharacteristicsMovement and dynamismImportance of Colour: Bright coloursColour substitutes line in the process of creating paintings.
Romantic NovelistsJane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1819)Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1862)The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas (1844)
Romantic PoetsPercy Byssche ShelleyLord Byron (George Gordon)Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam WordsworthJohn KeatsWilliam Blake
Lord ByronMary Shelley
Music ComposersBeethovenChopinSchubertRossiniFranz LisztDonizettiBizet
ChopinBeethovenSchubertRossini