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”