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