Rococo, Neoclassical, and Romantic Art Including Fun-Facts about Romanticism
Rococo Style (Early 18th Century) Style of the aristocracy, Old Regime, and Louis XV in particular Featured lavish and light-hearted decoration, pastel colors, and the play of light Ornate, decadent, and frivolous Displayed idealized landscapes, leisure, romance, and seduction
The Swing Fragonard
Boucher Lovers in a Park Madame de Pompadour
Imperial Hall Bavaria
Neoclassicism (1750-1850) A revival of classical art and antiquity Captured Greco-Roman grace and beauty Like Renaissance art, often focused on Greco-Roman mythology, literature, and history. Also focused on public life and public morals, heroism, and republicanism Didactic; not emotional, playful, or frivolous Initiated by the rediscovered and partial excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Oath of the Horatii Jacques Louis David
Andromache Mourning Over the Body of Hector
The Death of Socrates
Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Romanticism (1780-1850) An artistic and intellectual movement characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, rejection of a Newtonian worldview, Enlightenment ideas and cold rationalism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
Characteristics Subjective Emotional Sentimental Christian Medieval/Neo-Gothic Beyond the empirical (anti-enlightenment) Often dark, fantastic, or irrational Focused on folklore and fairy tales Themes Nature and the Sublime Emotion (fear, dread, awe, etc.) Mystery Rebellion Idealism Freedom Inwardness and contemplation Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) Sometimes an emphasis on innocence or early childhood
Romantic Literature Wordsworth Coleridge Goethe Lord Byron Percy Shelley Victor Hugo Sir Walter Scott The Brothers Grimm Bronte Sisters Thomas Carlyle The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth UP! up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double: Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks; Why all this toil and trouble?... Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher... One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-we murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!
An excerpt from Mary Shelley s Frankenstein As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained by a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribands of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog Caspar David Friedrich
The Polar Sea
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows John Constable
The White Horse
Dedham Vale
Rain, Steam, and Speed J. M. W. Turner
The Fighting Temeraire
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Fisherman at Sea
Newton William Blake
The Ancient of Days
The Third of May Francisco Goya
Death of Sardanapalus Eugene Delacroix
Massacre at Chios
The Raft of Medusa
A Burial at Ornans Courbet
Watson and the Shark Copley
Music Beethoven Mendelssohn Schubert Chopin Berlioz Verdi Wagner Tchaikovsky Liszt
Key Intellectual Figures and Their Ideas Rousseau Kant Fichte Hegel
Religion Methodism Led by John Wesley Revolt against deism and rationalism in the Church of England Focused on the human heart and one s emotional reaction to God- inward, enthusiastic and heartfelt religion Religious revivals, repentance, and good works Revival of Catholicism- essence of religion is passion and an emotional reaction to the sacraments Religious attachment to nature-->transcendentalism Validity of world religions