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  2. Romanticism - Wikipedia

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    Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron. Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808. Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

  3. Romantic art - Wikipedia

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    Romantic art. Romanticism in the visual arts, originating in the 1760s, marked a shift towards depicting wild landscapes and dramatic scenes, reflecting a departure from classical artistic norms. This movement emphasized the sublime beauty of nature, the intensity of human emotions, and the glorification of the past, often through the lens of ...

  4. Romanticism in France - Wikipedia

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    late 18th-mid-late 19th century. Romanticism (Romantisme in French) was a literary and artistic movement that appeared in France in the late 18th century, largely in reaction against the formality and strict rules of the official style of neo-classicism. It reached its peak in the first part of the 19th century, in the writing of François ...

  5. J. M. W. Turner - Wikipedia

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    Rain, Steam and Speed. Movement. Romanticism. Signature. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, [ a ] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

  6. Paul Cézanne - Wikipedia

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    Paul Cézanne (/ s eɪ ˈ z æ n / say-ZAN, UK also / s ɪ ˈ z æ n / siz-AN, US also / s eɪ ˈ z ɑː n / say-ZAHN; [1] [2] French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century, whose work formed the bridge between late 19th ...

  7. List of Romantic composers - Wikipedia

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    The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era.

  8. Michelangelo - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born. [3]

  9. Romantic music - Wikipedia

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    Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period). It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism —the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798 ...