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1 Romanticism Imagination over Reason Feeling over Thinking

2 Romanticism’s Interests Ever changing and wild character of nature Fascination with power and violence Interest in contemporary politics Gothic Stories Fascination with the insane & the subconscious Appeal to Middle Ages rather than Classicism Focus on Sublime: feelings of awe mixed with terror

3 Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

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5 Blake, Ancient of Days, 1794

6 Blake, Ancient of Days, 1794 “When he set a compass upon the face of the deep” Proverbs 8:22-23

7 Pianesi, Prison 14, 1750

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9 Gros, Napoleon at the Pesthouse of Jaffa, 1804

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12 Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819

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14 Gericault, Insane Woman 1822-1823

15 Delacroix vs. Ingres

16 Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

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19 Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1826

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21 Ingres, Grand Odalisque, 1814

22 Odalisque Turkish word for Harem girl Sometimes used to refer to reclining or recumbent female nude

23 Ingres, Grand Odalisque, 1814

24 Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, 1827

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28 Goya

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31 Goya, Family of Charles IV, 1800

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36 Goya, Third of May 1808, 1814

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38 Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children, 1819-1823

39 http://www.artchive.com/g alleries/goya/view1.html

40 Romantic Landscape Painting

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43 Constable, Hay Wain, 1821

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45 Turner, Slave Ship, 1840

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48 Friedrich, Abbey in an Oak Forest, 1810

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50 Hudson River School America’s first art movement

51 Cole, The Oxbow, 1836

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54 Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860s

55 Romantic Architecture & the Beginnings of Modern Architecture

56 Nash, Royal Pavilion, 1815-1818, Brighton, England

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60 Barry & Pugin, Houses of Parliament, 1835, London, England

61 Neo Gothic

62 Barry & Pugin, Houses of Parliament, 1835, London, England

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66 Neo Baroque Beaux Art Style

67 Symmetrical design Extremely ornamental exteriors Central core---radial extensions from this center Majestic, lavish; appealed to values of wealthy folks Dominated in France until WWI

68 Garnier, The Opera, 1861-1874, Paris, France

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75 Masonry to Iron

76 Labrouste, Sainte-Genevieve Library, 1843-1850, Paris

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83 Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1850-1851, London, England

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