Romanticism is a movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the Neoclassicism of the previous centuries. Neoclassicism the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music.

It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.Industrial RevolutionAge of Enlightenmentrationalization Rationalization :refers to the replacement of traditions, values, and emotions as motivators for behavior in society

Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which prized intuition and emotion over the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events of and ideologies that led to the French Revolution planted the seeds from which both Romanticism and the Counter- Enlightenment sprouted.Sturm und DrangFrench Revolutionthe seedsCounter- Enlightenment

Sensibility: an awareness and responsiveness toward something. Love of nature Sympathetic interest in the past especially the medieval. Individualism Primitivism- a belief in the superiority of a simple way of life and a nonindustrial society Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to raise a revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism. Romanticism embraced the exotic, the unfamiliar, and the distant in modes more authentic than Rococo chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.rationalClassicistmedievalismurban sprawlindustrialismRococochinoiserie

The landscape was, on one hand regarded as an extension of the human personality, capable of sympathy with mans emotional state. On the other hand, it was regarded as a vehicle for spirit just as man.

Ludwig van Beethoven German composer and pianist, regarded by many as the first Romantic-era composer, famous for his nine symphonies, thirty-two piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, ten violin sonatas and piano trios

Édouard Du Puy Swiss composer, singer, director and violinist

Music Franz Schubert Austrian composer, best known for his more than 600 lieder, chamber music, piano works and symphonies.

Music Frederic Chopin Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, his output includes nocturnes, ballade, scherzos, etudes, and a number of Polish dances such as mazurkas, polonaises, and waltzes (including Minute Waltz)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Wordsworth Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Konstantin Batyushkov Adam Mickiewicz Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein