Romanticism and Art

By Perri Haynes and Laura Rossi

``Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of

subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling.``

-Charles Baudelaire

Neoclassical

Oath of the Horatii By David

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

by Jacques-Louis David.

Romanticism Beginnings

Eugene Delecroix Liberty Leading the

People.

Ride of the Valkyries - Maud

The Raft of the Medusa-Gericault,Theodore

Paintings during the Romantic Age

Turner

The "Fighting Temeraire" Tugged to Her Last Berth to be Broken Up

Streamerina Snowstorm

Friedrich

The Wanderer

The View We Wanted To Have

The Abbey in the Oakwood

Picturesque

Landscapes with Merchants by Claude Lorrain. His paintings

were picturesque, not sublime. The castles and ruins humanized

the landscapes, making them more worthy of aesthetic

appreciation.

Sublime

Mandy Martin, Passage