1. Technology, Art, and Culture During the 19th Century
Scientific Advances, Romanticism, and Realism

2. Scientific Advances Louis Pasteur: Germ Theory of Disease
Improved the quality of life for people living in industrial cities
Michael Faraday: Electrical Generator
Produce electricity through steam power
Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Evolution, natural selection
Social Darwinism
Scientific advances caused by industrial revolution reduced the influence of religion: secularization

3. Romanticism Has nothing to do with “romance” or love
Importance of emotion and feelings rather than reason or intellect
Importance of the individual, especially the heroic individual in an exotic location
Importance of nature, not controlled by man
Response to
How linked to industrial revolution?

4. Examples: Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People

5. Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog

6. The Third of May 1808

7. Realism Late 19th Century
Represent ordinary people and the “real” world the way it actually is
Response to
How linked to industrial revolution?

8. The Stone Breakers

9. The Salmon Fisher