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4 de sept. de 2023 · At the end of the 18th century, artists began to reject the ideas of the Enlightenment which prioritized reason above all. They wanted to consider emotions and individuality as well as artistic liberty. This is how Romanticism emerged in the art world. Today, we recognize the names of Eugène Delacroix, JMW Turner, and Francisco de Goya.
THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837) – HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. It can be set in the period of time between 1760 (when George III became the King of England) and 1837 (when William IV died and his 18-years-old daughter, Victoria, became the Queen of England beginning of the Victorian Age).
For the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. The Companion's two-part structure presents forty-two essays on major topics, by leading international experts, cross-referenced to an extensive alphabetical section covering ...
Hace 5 días · The period which extends from 1798 to 1837 is known as “Romantic Age”.The term “romantic“ was used in England for the first time in the 16th century to indicate the unreal and fanciful ...
11 de ene. de 2018 · The Romantic period in literature lasted from 1789 to 1832, a time of revolution and changes in society and politics across Europe. Some of the major writers of the period in England included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Many ...
Romantic verse was suffused with reverence for the natural world. In Coleridge’s ‘Frost at Midnight’ (1798) the poet hailed nature as the ‘Great universal Teacher!’ Recalling his unhappy times at Christ’s Hospital School in London, he explained his aspirations for his son, Hartley, who would have the freedom to enjoy his childhood and appreciate his surroundings.
Another facet of the Romantic attitude toward nature emerges in the landscapes of John Constable, whose art expresses his response to his native English countryside. For his major paintings, Constable executed full-scale sketches, as in a view of Salisbury Cathedral ( 50.145.8 ); he wrote that a sketch represents “nothing but one state of mind—that which you were in at the time.”
