Romanticism

By: Jeffrey Hawkins

Early European writers and artists of the romantic period

When it started

• It started in England in the 1790s with a few early artists such as charlotte smith and William Lisle Bowles

Charlotte smith

• Early in her career she established novels that would go into the gothic fiction era but later changed her style to the new romantic period

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Austrian Composer• Beethoven was deaf for almost his entire career.• Student of Hadyn

John Keats

• Born in 1795• Died in 1821• Major Works

Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818)Hyperion (1820)The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (1820)The Eve of St. Agnes (1820)La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1820)Ode to A Nightingale (1820)Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)Lamia (1819 / 1856)

William Lisle Bowles

• He was an English clergyman, poet, and literary critic.

• Known better for his influence then his writing

Frederic Chopin

• Pianist and Composer.• Polish and French• Born 1810• Died 1849

Joseph Wright of Derby

• Artist on the European movement in romanticism. He expressed the spirit of the industrial revolution

James Ward

• Artist of the early 19th century know for his painting of large landscapes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Major WorksLyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"Conversation Poems"The Eolian Harp" (1795)"This Lime-tree Bower My Prison" (1797)"Frost At Midnight" (1798)Kubla Khan (1798)Christabel (1801)Dejection: An Ode (1802

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Shelley was one of the most well know and best at writing lyrical poems.

Eugene Delacroix

• A French painter known for his use of color and influenced the Impressionist movement.

Joseph Mallord William Turner

One of the Founders of theWatercolor LandscapesPaintings.

John Constable

• British landscape artist.

Carl Maria von Weber

• He is the cousin of Mozart's wife Constanze. He was also a pianist and then later a music director. He like to conduct his music in various ways such as without a violin or keyboard section.

Henry Fuseli

• From Switzerland, was an outstanding painter and was a well known writer on art. Some of his paintings include Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and the witches.

The Decline

Realism became more popular because of declining conditions all over the world.

The end of romanticism

The civil war sparked the massive decline and eventual end of Romanticism in America.

Realism was the main factor to the decline all over the world.

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