ROMANTICISMArt, Architecture, Literature, Music and Philosophy

Romanticism

Marked by an intensity of feeling and emotion. Romantic artists revolted against authority, allowing for freedom of expression in the various areas of the humanities.

Music

Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 in D Minor, Op 125

Philosophy

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Charles Darwin

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Sojourner Truth

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Literature

William Wordsworth

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

its loveliness increases; it will never

pass into nothingness.

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Art

Constable, The Hay Wain

Bierstadt, Storm in the Rocky Mountains

Cole, The Oxbow: The Connecticut River near Northampton

Turner, The Slave Ship

Corot, Ville d’Avray

Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom

David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass

Delacroix, Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains

Phillips, Lord Byron in Albanian Dress

Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa

Goya, The Third Of May 1808

Delacroix, Liberty Leading The People

The Statue Of Liberty

Cordier, African in Algerian Costume

Rude, La Marseillaise

Carpeaux, The Dance

Architecture

House of Parliament, England

Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New York