Neo-Classicism

Art of the Napoleonic EraThe Art of Power

Oath of Horatii Jacques Louis David 1784

Death of Socrates J-L David 1787

GoyaArt of Social protest

The Spirit of the Age (1790-1850)

EnlightenmentSociety is good, curbing

violent impulses!Civilization corrupts!

RomanticismEarly19c

A Growing Distrust of Reason

e The essence of human experience is subjective and emotional.

e Human knowledge is a puny thing compared to other great historical forces.

e “Individual rights” are dangerous efforts at selfishness the community is more important.

The Romantic Movement•Began in 1790s

•Peaked in 1820s

•Mostly Northern Europe-- Britain & Germany

•Lord Byron - “The Romantic hero”

Wandering Above the Sea

of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich,

1818

Emotions!Passion!Irrationality!

1. Power & Fury of Nature

The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

Tree of CrowsCaspar David Friedrich, 1822

The Wreck of the Hope (aka The Sea of Ice)

Caspar David Friedrich, 1821

2. Science can be dangerous. The new technology is dehumanizing

3. Romanticizing Country Life

The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

John Constable, 1831

Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825

4. The Exotic, the Occult & the Macabre

Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781

Abbey in an Oak ForestCaspar David Friedrich, 1809-

1810

The Great Red

Dragon and the Woman

Clothed with the Sun

William Blake,

1808-1810

5. Nationalism

Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830

6. Interest in Exotic Lands

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

Eugène Delacroix, 1834

What do Romanticism and Ms. Greenberg’s winter break have in common?

The Romantic periods ends around 1850….but some people…such as the unfortunate King Ludwig of Bavaria…are “hopeless Romantics”