Lesson Review ch 12.2 Romanticism

1. How did the Romantic movement get it’s name? The term Romanticism came from a widespread revival of interest in medieval stories such as King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the Search for the Holy Grail.

2. Name 2 Romantic poets, 2 romantic artists and 2 romantic musicians. Poets - Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron Artists – Goya, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Cole, Bingham, Constable. Musicians – Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Wagner.

3. Explain what is happening in Goya’s Third of May, How is Napoleon connected to this story? French soldiers are shooting Spanish revels. Since Napoleon was the emperor of France, he was the chief commanders of the French soldiers depicted in this painting.

4. Describe some of the measures the Gericault took to ensure that his painting Raft of the Medusa would be authentic. Gericault interviewed the survivors, read newspapers accounts, and sketched and painted corpses at the morgue. He also had himself lashed to the mast of a ship in a storm so he could experience the ocean swells and the wind.

5. Which artist is now considered to be the founder of French Romanticism? Theodore Gericault

6. What new invention did Delacroix use to make studies for his paintings. Photography

7. Describe the sky in Constable’s The Hay Wain. The sky is dramatic with patches of fresh blue sky covered by white clouds which are darker on the left.

8. What was Turner most interested in painting in Snow Storms: Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth? Color and movement

9. Name the group of painters that was led by Thomas Cole. The Hudson River School

10. During the early nineteenth century in England, why did a revival of the Gothic style become popular rather than Neoclassicism, as in Paris? The English considered Gothic to be their style, as opposed to the Neoclassic style which was popular with the French. The English did not want to associate themselves with Napoleon or French.

11. Which French architect is most responsible for designing the contemporary city of Paris? George Eugene Baron Haussman