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Chapter 4
ROMANTICISM
Romanticism was an anti-establishment movement characterized by ambiguity, complexity, and uncertainty. Romantic artists privileged individualism over convention. They experimented with new subject matter, compositions, and techniques in order to discover visual languages that effectively communicated their personal ideas and experiences.
Artists and Artworks:
4.1 - George Stubbs, Lion Attacking a Horse, 1765
4.2 - Benjamin West, Death on a Pale Horse, 1796
4.3 - Heinrich Fuseli, Nightmare, 1781
4.4 - William Blake, And the Angel Which I Saw Lifted Up His Head to Heaven, 1803-1805
4.5 - Philipp Otto Runge, Hülsenbeck Children, 1805-06
4.6 - Philipp Otto Runge, Morning, 1809
4.7 - Francisco Goya, Injured Mason, 1786
4.8 - Francisco Goya, Dream/Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1799
4.9 - Francisco Goya, Family of Carlos IV, 1800-01
4.10 - Francisco Goya, Third of May 1808, 1814
4.11 - Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children, c. 1820
4.12 - Francisco Goya, Yard with Madmen (Corral de Locos), 1794
4.13 - Théodore Géricault, Madwoman, 1819-20
4.14 - Auguste Préault, Tuerie (Slaughter), 1834
4.15 - Antoine-Louis Barye, Lion Crushing a Serpent, 1833
4.16 - James Barry, King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia, 1786-88
4.17 - Fleury Richard, François I Presented as Child to Louis XII, c. 1840
4.18 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Vow of Louis XIII, 1824
4.20 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Medieval City on a River, 1815
4.21 - Franz Pforr, Entrance of Emperor Rudolf into Basel in 1273, 1808-10
4.22 - Friedrich Overbeck, Joseph Sold by His Brothers, 1816-17
Readings:
Boime, Albert. Art in the Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990
Bryson, Norman. Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984
Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Adam Philips, ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,1990
Eitner, Lorenz. Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750-1850, vol. 1: Enlightenment and Revolution. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1970
Frank, Mitchell Benjamin. German Romantic Painting Redefined: Nazarene Tradition and the Narratives of Romanticism. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001
Grewe, Cordula. Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848. New York: Vintage Books
Morowitz, Laura. Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000
Paley, Morton D. The Apocalyptic Sublime. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1986
Ribner, Jonathan P. Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993
Saul, Nicholas. The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Vaughan, William. Romanticism and Art. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1999
Wakefield, David F. The French Romantics: Literature and the Visual Arts, 1800-1840. London: Chaucer, 2007
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