Romanticism and Realism

1806 1838 1840 1848 1859 HRE (Holy Roman Empire) Dissolved First photographs taken by Daguerre First electric light bulb Potato Famine in Ireland Darwin writes, Origin of Species

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. Realism is a visual art style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. Realists render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in verisimilitude. They tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and classical forms in favor of commonplace themes. Gustave Courbet is credited with coining the term, which often refers to the artistic movement, sometimes called naturalism, which began in the 1850s in France.

Terms/People/Literary Works:
Mary Shelley-Frankenstein, 1820 Bourbon/Troubadors Polidori-Dracula, 1819 Milton-Paradise Lost Barbizon School Hudson

Stendahl-History of Painting in Italy, 1817 German Nazarenes River School Chopin

Romanticism
Gros Gericault
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Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa*

1804

Wounded Cuirassier

1814

Raft of the Medusa*

1818

Delacroix
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Death of Sardanapalus Liberty Guiding the People* Women of Algiers 1834

1827 1830

Ingres
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Turkish Bath Odalisque and Servant

1832 1840

Goya
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Family of Charles IV* The Third of May 1808* Saturn Eating his Children 1814

1800

1820

Constable
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The Hay Wain Salisbury Cathedral

1821 1823

Turner
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Snowstorm: Hannibal Crossing the Alps* The Slave Ship

1812 1840

Friedrich
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Abbey in an Oak Forest Wanderer above a Sea of Mist Arctic Shipwreck

1809 1818 1823

Realism
Corot

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Bridge at Narni Souvenir de Mortefontaine

1826-1827 1864

Courbet
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The Stone Breakers* The Burial at Ornans*

1850 1850

Millet
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The Sower The Gleaners*

1850 1857

Daumier
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Rue Transnonain Third Class Carriage*

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1834 1862