
Romanticism
Passion, nature, and the triumph of imaginationBy Léon RosenthalLength3h 52m
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Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowing his work with a movement and expression never previously seen.
By retracing the different stages of its evolution, this book offers a study of the different aspects of the Romantic movement. Thanks to a thorough and in-depth analysis, the reader can understand in its entirety this movement which revolutionised the era.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
29Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Hernani
2I. The Precursors of Romanticism
30Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, called George Sand (1804-1876) The Devil’s Pool
3II. The Romantic Period
31Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) The Confession of a Child of the Century
4III. The Romantic Inspiration
32Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841) A Hero of Our Time
5IV. The Expressive Moods of Romanticism
33Major Artists
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6Conclusion
34Hubert Robert (Paris, 1733-1808)
7Extracts from Literary Texts
35Johann Heinrich Füssli, called Henry Fuseli (Zürich 1741 – London 1825)
8Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Reveries of the Solitary Walker
36Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828)
9James MacPherson (1736-1796) Fragments of Ancient Poetry
37John Robert Cozens (London, 1752-1797)
10Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust
38William Blake (London, 1757-1827)
11William Blake (1757-1827) Poems The Echoing Green
39Antoine Jean Gros, Baron Gros (Paris, 1771-1835)
12Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) The Bride of Messina
40Caspar David Friedrich (Greiswald, 1774 – Dresden, 1840)
13Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein, called Madame de Staël (1766-1817) Germany
41Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 1775-1851)
14Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) Adolphe
42John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 – London, 1837)
15François René Chateaubriand, vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) René
43Philipp Otto Runge (Walgast, 1777 – Hamburg, 1810)
16William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lyrical Ballads The Thorn
44Théodore Géricault (Rouen, 1791 – Paris 1824)
17Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, called Novalis (1772-1801) Hymn to Night
45Arie Scheffer, called Ary Scheffer (Dort, 1795 – Argenteuil, 1858)
18Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) Philosophy of Life
46Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863)
19Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) The Devil’s Elixir
47Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham, 1802 – London, 1828)
20Joseph von Görres (1776-1848) Bayard, or the Death of the True Hero
48Théodore Chassériau (Sainte-Barbe-de-Samana, 1819 – Paris, 1856)
21Henri Beyle, called Stendhal (1783-1842) The Charterhouse of Parma
49François Rude (Dijon, 1784 – Paris, 1855)
22George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) The Prayer of Nature
50Pierre Jean David, called David d’Angers (Angers, 1788 – Paris, 1856)
23James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Last of the Mohicans
51Jean-Jacques Pradier, called James Pradier (Geneva, 1790 – Bougival, 1852)
24Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) Poetical Meditations The Lake
52Antoine-Louis Barye (Paris, 1796-1875)
25Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Alastor or the Spirit of Solitude
53Jean-Étienne Chaponnière (Geneva, 1801 – Mornex, 1835)
26John Keats (1795-1821) Poems
54Antoine Augustin Préault, called Auguste Préault (Paris, 1809-1879)
27Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) Intermezzo
55Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (Valenciennes, 1827 – Courbevoie, 1875)
28Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) Chatterton