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Romantic Movement Flashcards

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Immanuel Kant

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In Critique of Pure/Practical Reason; believed in limited rationalism; categorical imperative

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Rousseau

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Father of romantic movement; Emile

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Samuel Coleridge

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Master of gothic poems concerning supernatural; Rime of Ancient Mariner

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William Wordsworth

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Tintern Abbey

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Lord Byron

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Died helping Greeks in revolution; She Walks in Beauty

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She Walks in Beauty

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About a beautiful girl with a powerful presence (Birth of Venus); Byron

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Percy Shelley

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Died at sea doing what he loves (boats); Ode to the West Wind

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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People frozen in time; Keats

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Ode to the West Wind

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Bad may come, good will follow; Shelley

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John Keats

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Died from tuberculosis he contracted from his brother; Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Sturm and Drang

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German literacy movement encouraging unification

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Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Faust; encouraged Germany to avoid corruption

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Johann Schiller

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William Tell; sparks nationalism by encouraging Germans to stand up to France

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Johann Herder

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Advocated preserving German culture; defined volkgeist as a nation’s spirit

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The Grimm brothers

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Published a collection of German folk tales known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales; frowned upon because of its risky content

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Madame de Stael

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Bridged neoclassicism to romanticism; owned a salon for intellectuals; theorist; epitomized European cultures; Corine; Considerations on the French Revolution

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Victor Hugo

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French; Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables

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Alexander Pushkin

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Dominant Russian writer; I Have Visited Again; died in a duel for his wife

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Baroque style art

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Extravagant; bizarre; in response to Protestant reformation

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Rococo style art

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Called late baroque; more playful than classical baroque; excessive decoration

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Neoclassicism

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Revival of classic antiquity; Greek and roman styles; morally serious; reaction to the excess of preceding rococo style

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Romanticism

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Revolt against aristocratic norms and scientific rationalization; aesthetic

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Francisco Goya

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3rd of May; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

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3rd of May 1808

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Commemorates Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s army during Peninsular Wars

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

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People are dark, dreams release what you’re hiding

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Eugene Delacroix

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Massacre of Chios; Liberty Leading the People

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Liberty Leading the People

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1830, commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 in France toppling Emporer Charles X

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Massacre of Chios

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1824, shows destruction of Greek Revolution on island of Chios

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John Constable

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Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

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Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

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Stable world where political turmoil challenged traditional dominance of the church

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Casper David Friedrich

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Cross in the Mountains; The Polar Sea; Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog

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Cross in the Mountains

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Piety to God through nature

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The Polar Sea

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Nature over man

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Wanderer above a Sea of Fog

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Epiphany because of nature

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Joseph William Turner

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Rain, Steam, and Speed

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Rain, Steam, and Speed

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William Blake

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Nebuchadnezzar; Ancient of Days; visionary

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Ancient of Days

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God measures the material world

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