Chapter 29

The Romantic Style in Art and Music

Major themes• Individualism

•Patriotism

•Nationalism

•Antoine-Jean Gros

Antoine-Jean Gros, Napleon Bonaparte on Arcole Bridge , 1797

Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-stricken at Jaffa, 1799

Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau, 1808

•Francisco Goya

1746-1828

Francisco Goya. The Third of May, 1808.

http://www4.gvsu.edu/pozzig/european_civ2/images/goya.jpg

Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1796-1797

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/images/etching_goya.sleepr.lg.jpg

Francisco Goya, Colossus, 1808-1812

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/goya.colossus.jpg

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring one of his Sons, 1819

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/g/images/grotes_goya.saturn.lg.JPG

• Théodore Géricault

1791-1824

Théodore Géricault, An Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge, 1812

http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gericaul/1/101geric.jpg

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 http://rock.uwc.edu/facultypages/pkudrna/New%20Folder%20(2)/nff0055.jpg

• The Raft of the Medusa marks the first appearance in painting of 'the ugly' and thereby proclaims its scrupulous respect for the truth, however repulsive the truth might be. This concern for truth is integral to the Romantic temperament.

• Géricault chose a dramatic episode — the wreck of the frigate Meduse, which had set off with a French fleet on an expedition to Senegal, and had been lost in July 1816.

• The most horrifying part of the shipwreck had been the drama of 149 wretches abandoned on a raft with only some casks of wine to live on, and the ensuing drunkenness and abominations. When the frigate Argus found the raft, after many days, she was only able to rescue fifteen survivors, of whom five died after being brought ashore. After some hesitation, Géricault chose this last episode — the sighting of the Argus by the survivors on the raft.

• http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/gericaul/1/

•Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

http://www.griseldaonline.it/percorsi/5allegro_foto10.htm

Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827

http://pds.egloos.com/pds/1/200411/30/95/b0043795_4534354.jpg

• In the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by the work of another Romantic, the poet Byron, Delacroix painted an apotheosis of cruelty. The composition, all reds and golds, portrays the holocaust of the legendary Assyrian king, destroying his possessions before committing suicide. The insurgents are attacking his castle; all is lost; stretched out on a sumptuous bed at the summit of an immense pyre, Sardanapalus orders eunuchs and palace officers to cut the throats of his women, his pages, and even his favourite dogs and horses; none of the objects that have served his pleasure are to survive him. His women are placed on a level with his horses and dogs.

• http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/delacroi/2/204delac.html

•Romantic Sculpture

• Romantic Sculpture: works created based on the imagination and appealing to the emotions.

François Rude, La Marseillaise (The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), 1822-1836.

•A great winged figure personifying Liberty is shown above a group of men: She is rushing forward, screaming, urging them on to battle.

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/scultpurePlastic/SculptureHistory/RomanticSculpture/012.jpg

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Dance, 1865-69 http://vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th9_1000/open-35-broadcast.htm

•Mid-19th Century Architecture:

Neomedievalism

• Revival of the Gothic Style

Barry and Pugin, House of Parliament, London, 1840-1860

Monet painted the Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1904) where river, sky and Parliament all appear to be aflame with the setting sun. http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2005/Jan-Jun05/monet.htm

Royal courts of Justice, London,

1874-82

Votivkirche, Vienna, 1856-79

• Neomedievalism in the US

James Renwick, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York

Renwick, Grace Church, New York

Rewick, Smithsonian, Washington DC

Yale University

Yale University

• The End