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19th Century Romanticism

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Four distinctive characteristics:

1. Heavy emphasis on emotion and passion

2. Emphasis on the individual

3. Celebration of nature 4. Glorified the past

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Ingres, Grande Odalisque

•Delacroix, Odalisque

Odalisques

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Ingres Delacroix

Paganini

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•David

Delacroix

Horses

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Caricature of Delacroix and Ingres jousting in front of the Institut de France

Delacroix, “Line is color!” Ingres, “Color is Utopia. Long live line!”

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Caspar David Friedrich

Germany 1774-1840

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Abbey in an Oak Forest—1809-10

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

—1818

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Chalk Cliffs of Rugen-1818

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JMW Turner

England 1775-1851

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The Fighting Téméraire—1838

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Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway-1844

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Pre-Raphaelites

England 1848

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Sir Edward Burne-Jones

England 1833-1898

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The Beguiling of

Merlin—1874

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

England 1836-1912

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Expectations—1885

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

England 1828-1882

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The Beloved—1865-66

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

France 1825-1905

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The Shepherdess

—1899

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Theodore Gericault

France 1791-1824

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Officer of the Imperial Guard—1812

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The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19

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Interviewed survivors

Hired ship’s carpenter to make raft

Bought corpses and body parts to study

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Painted his friend, Delacroix, as figure on raft

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Wanted to create

melodrama

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Eugene Delacroix

France 1798-1863

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The Bark of Dante, 1821

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Delacroix,

After Rubens’

Marie d’Medici Arriving at Marseilles

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The Bark of Dante, Delacroix

Marie d’Medici Arriving at Marseilles, Rubens’

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The Massacre at Chios, 1821

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Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1824

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The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827

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Liberty Leading the People, 1832

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The Lion Hunt, 1832

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Odalisque, 1832

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Women of Algiers—1834

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Manet, The Bark of Dante

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Picasso, Women of Algiers

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Fantin-Latour, Homage to Delacroix

ManetWhistler

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Romanticism1750-1850

A. J.J. Rousseau: “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains!”

B. A desire for freedom of thought & feeling through imagination rather than reason

C. A shift from reason to feeling, from calculation to intuition

D. Reimagining of Middle Ages as a time of mystery & fantasy

E. Sublime: feelings of awe mixed with terror (most intense emotions are evoked by pain or fear)

F. A taste for the fantastic, and the occult

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19th Century Romanticism

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