What is romanticism?
A style of art, literature, and etc., during the late 18th century and 19th centuries that emphasized imagination and emotions.
The quality or state of being romantic.
5 examples of Romanticism
Music:
Music during the 18th and 19th century. In the Romantic period, music became more expressive and emotional, expanding to surround literary, artistic, and philosophical themes.
Berlioz - The Damnation of Faust (one of his dramatic piece)
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
Beethoven: No. 59
Art:
Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck
Vernet, the youngest member of an artistic dynasty, emerged as a highly respected and prolific history painter in the 1820s and 1830s. This turbulent coast scene evokes the shipwreck imagery that his grandfather, Joseph Vernet, popularized in mid-eighteenth-century France; these images catered to the growing taste for the sublime, an aesthetic that celebrated the awe-inspiring power of nature. A direct descendant of such sublime views, Vernet's painterly rendering of the aftermath of a shipwreck reflects the Romantic predilection for violence and pathos.
The natchez
In 1823, Delacroix began to paint this scene from Chateaubriand’s widely read Romantic novel Atala, which narrates the fate of the Natchez tribe in the wake of the French and Indian War (1754–63). After putting the canvas aside for about a decade, he finally completed the picture for the Paris Salon of 1835. In the catalogue, Delacroix provided this explanatory note: "Fleeing the massacre of their tribe, two young savages traveled up the Mississippi River. During the voyage, the woman was taken by pain of labor. The moment is that when the father holds the newborn in his hands, and both regard him tenderly."
