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Overview: At the end of the 18th century, a philosophical shift in idea and form occurred that shaped the basis for the Romantic era. This age was achieved self-consciously through theory and encompassed the arts and literature. It includes a plethora of styles that are today gathered together under the umbrella of Romanticism, but it also draws much from the preceding Neoclassicism. Romanticism is largely an intellectual movement that grew out of...
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American architecture of the Romantic Period- the earlier nineteenth century- produced many strange and many charming buildings and a notably wide variety of ideas about architecture. Men as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Jefferson, the sculptor Horatio Greenough and the landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing concerned themselves with the art of building. During this period, architecture underwent a revolution as great as that which took...
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For Isaiah Berlin, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics. In these lectures, Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism and distils its essence.
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"This book provides an introduction to the development and content of Samuel Palmer's life and art. Written primarily for general readers, it also contains much of interest to art historians and to students at all levels. It is illustrated by many colour plates. An introduction, outlining the artist's life and background, is followed by commentaries on seventy-five of his works including, in addition to paintings, drawings important to the development...
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The image of Eugène Delacroix as an august artist with an august oeuvre was initially frozen into place by posthumous tributes and it has continued to the present. He was one of the finest yet least understood painters of the nineteenth century, the golden age of the French Romantic movement. He is remembered best for his masterpiece, 'La Liberté guidant le people', but few of his works have received the kind of constant, fascinated revisiting that...
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'This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable New-classicism ... The text is supported by a useful selection of illustrations ... Excellent footnotes and a good index.
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Kenneth Clark discusses thirteen important artists representing one of the greatest periods in the history of art -- the second half of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. During the second half of the eighteenth century, when the spirit of revolution was rising through Europe, a division appeared in all the arts, deeper and more radical than any that had preceded. Rivalry arose between to schools of painting, the Romantic...
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