1. The Romantic Hero

2. Bierstadt, Lander’s Peak (1863)

3. David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass (1800)

5. Romanticism: 19 th century Imagination/subjectivity (anti-rationalism) Nature (beautiful/sublime/picturesque) Nationalism (spirit of the Folk) Nostalgia (the Gothic, the Medieval) Exoticism Heroism and Hero worship

6. Nationalism “an ideology (or belief system) grounded in a people’s sense of cultural and political unity” (Fiero 699)

7. Romantic Hero Creative, subjective, and egotistical  The Romantic artist himself/herself is a hero Rises above but inspires the common person Pushes limits of morality through his/her own subjective experience

8. Heroism and Hero Worship Nationalist Hero: Napoleon Promethean Hero (Byron’s Prometheus/Frankenstein/American Abolitionists) Faustian Hero

12. Goethe’s Faust

19. Gericault, The Raft of the “Medusa” (1818)

20. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

21. David, The Oath of the Horatii (1785)

22. Bartholdi, Liberty Enlightening the World (1871-84)