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| | [[File:Caspar David Friedrich The wanderer above the sea of fog 1818.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Caspar David Friedrich, ''The wanderer above the sea of fog'' (1818)]] | | [[File:Caspar David Friedrich The wanderer above the sea of fog 1818.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Caspar David Friedrich, ''The wanderer above the sea of fog'' (1818)]] |
| | + | '''Romanticism''' was an innovative artistic, musical, and literary movement in the early 1800s that emphasized feelings, and nature. The Romantic period in art was also a time of rebirth for [[religion|religious values]]. Romanticism opposed elements of the [[Enlightenment]] that stressed [[rationalism]] at the expense of human emotion and imagination. In writing, Romanticism elevated the common man, [[nationalism]], [[freedom]], and the supernatural, while also glorifying nature. In music, the [[Russia|Russian]] composer [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] epitomized this movement. |
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| − | '''Romanticism''' was an innovative artistic, musical, and literary movement in the early 1800s which emphasized feelings, and nature. The Romantic period of art was also a period of rebirth for [[religion|religious values]]. Romanticism opposed elements of the [[Enlightenment]] that emphasized [[rationalism]] at the expense of human emotion and imagination. In writing, Romanticism elevated the common man, [[nationalism]], [[freedom]], and the supernatural, while also glorifying nature. In music, the [[Russia|Russian]] composer [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] epitomized this movement.
| + | The term "Romanticism" was coined because it originated in European regions of the "Romance Languages," namely French, Spanish, and Italian. Novelist [[Victor Hugo]] led this movement in [[Europe]] with his works readable by the common man. German and British Romanticism followed soon after. Other countries such as [[America]] and [[Canada]] also had Romantic art movements. |
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| − | The term "Romanticism" was coined because it originated in European regions of the "Romance Languages," namely French, Spanish and Italian. Novelist [[Victor Hugo]] led this movement in [[Europe]] with his works readable by the common man. German and British Romanticism followed soon after. Other countries such as [[America]] and [[Canada]] also had Romantic art movements. | |
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| | [[America]]n literature typifying this era include [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby Dick]]'', [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s writings, [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Henry David Thoreau]], and [[Walt Whitman]]. Even inventors including [[Samuel Morse]], who originated the [[Morse code]], were inspired by Romanticism. | | [[America]]n literature typifying this era include [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby Dick]]'', [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s writings, [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Henry David Thoreau]], and [[Walt Whitman]]. Even inventors including [[Samuel Morse]], who originated the [[Morse code]], were inspired by Romanticism. |
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| | [[Eugene Delacroix]] (1798-1863) was perhaps the most important of the [[French]] Romantic painters; in English literature, the ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798), poems co-authored by [[William Wordsworth]] and [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] was an early example of this movement. | | [[Eugene Delacroix]] (1798-1863) was perhaps the most important of the [[French]] Romantic painters; in English literature, the ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798), poems co-authored by [[William Wordsworth]] and [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] was an early example of this movement. |
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| − | Romanticism notably had different subgenres, as Dark Romanticists like [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] notably emphasized the grotesque and Gothic themes more in their literature. | + | Romanticism notably had different subgenres, as Dark Romanticists like [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] notably highlighted grotesque and Gothic themes more in their literature. |
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| | [[File:Antonio Fabres y Costa La Favorita.jpg|thumb|240px|''La Favorita'' by Antonio Fabrés y Costa.]] | | [[File:Antonio Fabres y Costa La Favorita.jpg|thumb|240px|''La Favorita'' by Antonio Fabrés y Costa.]] |
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| | ==Key Authors== | | ==Key Authors== |
| | *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] | | *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] |
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| | ==In Literature== | | ==In Literature== |
| − | It evoked the past and emphasized women and children, mostly because of their purity, as well as romantic love, [[idealism]] and [[nationalism]] – as found, for example, in[[ Goethe]]'s works.
| + | Romanticism evoked the past and focused more on women and children, due to their purity, romantic love, [[idealism]], and [[nationalism]] – as found, for example, in [[Goethe]]'s works. |
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| | *[http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/romanticism/arthistory_romanticism.html Romanticism Art History Archive] | | *[http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/romanticism/arthistory_romanticism.html Romanticism Art History Archive] |
| | *[http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/romanticism.htm Romanticism] | | *[http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/romanticism.htm Romanticism] |
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