Romanticism
Romanticism
Romanticism
Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Spirit of the Age (1790-1850)
A sense of a shared vision among the
Romantics.
Dehumanization of industrialization.
Caspar David
Friedrich,
1818
Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794
Characteristics of Romanticism
(details)
The Slave Ship
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1842
The
Slave
Ship
(details)
Flatford Mill – John Constable, 1817
The Corn
Field
John Constable,
1826
The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821
Characteristics of Romanticism
of Envy
Theodore
Gericault,
1822-1823
Pity - William Blake, 1795
The Great Red
Dragon and the
Woman Clothed
William Blake,
1808-1810
Stonehenge - John Constable, 1836
Nightmare (The Incubus)
Henry Fuseli, 1781
Manfred and the Witch of the Alps
John Martin - 1837
Witches
Sabbath
Francisco
Goya,
1798
Procession of Flagellants on Good Friday
Francisco Goya, 1793
Saturn Devours
His Son
Francisco Goya,
1819-1823
Greece on the
Ruins of
Missolonghi
Eugène
Delacroix, 1827
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Detail of the
Musket Bearer
Delacoix, himself
The Rise of the Cartheginian Empire
Joseph Turner, 1815
His Majesty’s Ship, “Victory”
(Trafalgar) - John Constable, 1806
An Officer of the
Imperial Horse
Guard
Théodore Géricault,
1814
Napoleon
at the
St. Bernard
Pass
David,
1803
The Shooting of May 3, 1808
Francisco Goya, 1815
Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841
Characteristics of Romanticism
Exoticism:
The sexy “other.”
A sense of escape from reality.
A psychological/moral justification
of imperialism?
Grand Canal, Venice
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1835
Massacre of Chios - Eugène Delacroix, 1824
The Fanatics of Tangiers
Eugène Delacroix, 1837-1838
The Sultan of Morocco and His
Entourage
Eugène Delacroix, 1845
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Eugène Delacroix, 1834
The Turkish Bath
Jean Auguste Ingres, 1852-1863
The Bullfight - Francisco Goya
Charge of the Mamelukes, May 2nd, 1808
Francisco Goya, 1814
The Royal Pavillion at Brighton
John Nash, 1815-1823
God as the Architect - William Blake,
1794
Elohim Creating Abraham
William Blake, 1805
Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
William Blake, 1825
Faust and Mephistopheles
Eugène Delacroix, 1826-1827
The Seventh Plague of Egypt
John Martin, 1823
The Cathedral
Gaspar David
Friedrich,
1818
The Cathedral
(details)
Gaspar David
Friedrich,
1818
The Great Age of the Novel
Gothic Novel:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)
Historical Novel:
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1819)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1862)
The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
(1844)
The Great Age of the Novel
Science Fiction Novel:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1817)
Dracula – Bramm Stoker (1897)
Novel of Purpose:
Hugh Trevar - Thomas Holcroft (1794)
Other Romantic Writers
Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales
(1814-1816)
Tintern
Abbey
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge’s
Poem,
The Rime
of the
Ancient
Mariner
The Political Implications
Romanticism could reinforce the greatest
themes of political liberalism or political
conservatism.
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