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[[Image:JWW1.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[John William Waterhouse]]'s ''The Lady of Shalott'', 1888.]] | [[Image:JWW1.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[John William Waterhouse]]'s ''The Lady of Shalott'', 1888.]] | ||
| − | '''Romanticism''' was a major artistic and | + | '''Romanticism''' was a major artistic, musical and literary movement in the 1800s which emphasized expressed thoughts, feelings, and nature. The Romantic period of art was also a period of rebirth for religious philosophy. |
The term "Romanticism" was coined because it originated in European regions of the "Romance Languages", namely French, Spanish and Italian. German and British Romanticism followed soon after. Other countries such as [[America]] and [[Canada]] also had Romantic art movements. | The term "Romanticism" was coined because it originated in European regions of the "Romance Languages", namely French, Spanish and Italian. German and British Romanticism followed soon after. Other countries such as [[America]] and [[Canada]] also had Romantic art movements. | ||
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| + | Romanticism is contrasted with [[neo-classicism]], a movement that preceded it. | ||
==Key Artists== | ==Key Artists== | ||
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*[[William Turner]] | *[[William Turner]] | ||
*[[John Constable]] | *[[John Constable]] | ||
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| + | ==Key Authors== | ||
| + | *[[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]] | ||
| + | *[[Mary Shelley]] | ||
| + | *[[Edgar Allen Poe]] | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
Revision as of 23:30, May 7, 2008
John William Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott, 1888.
Romanticism was a major artistic, musical and literary movement in the 1800s which emphasized expressed thoughts, feelings, and nature. The Romantic period of art was also a period of rebirth for religious philosophy.
The term "Romanticism" was coined because it originated in European regions of the "Romance Languages", namely French, Spanish and Italian. German and British Romanticism followed soon after. Other countries such as America and Canada also had Romantic art movements.
Romanticism is contrasted with neo-classicism, a movement that preceded it.