1. Art from the Victorian Era
by Allie Doherty, Nia Dawson, Brennen Rand,
Charisma Banks and Kesterlyn Wilson

2. Painters
Second half of the 19th century is known as the positivist age
faith in the positive consequences of the natural and human realms
Vibrant colors were used to represent this positivity in high society
the return of classic realism with the influences of technological advances
more scientific viewpoint of aesthetics
paintings pictured modernity, finery, elegance, as well as the countryside with emotion tendencies

3. Romanticism paintings were individualistic, exotic, and emotional
most famous romantic school was the Hudson River School in American; specialized in dramatic landscapes

4. Victorian Classicism
Historical paintings inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
highly romantic
inspired by historical and mythological themes
emphasized the rigid Academic standards

5. Orientalism religious-like paintings decadent and mysterious style
typically large in size and subjects are in dramatic lighting and poses
common for subjects to be semi-nude

6. Impressionism
spontaneous movement to the restrictions and conventions of Academic Art
named was derived from Claude Monet's work, Impressionism: Sunrise
naturalistic style that featured many landscaes

7. Architecture
Towers
Vibrant colors.
Bay windows (they stick out)
Stained glass in doorways and windows.
chimneys
Gothic revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, stick style, shingle style, Octagon style, Richardsonian Romanesque Style, Second Empire Style(Mansard Style) emerged in this era
Victorian homes resembled dollhouses with decorative trim and bright colors
Two to three stories
Wood or stone exterior
Complicated, asymmetrical shape
Decorative trim Textured wall surfaces
Steep, multi-faceted roof or Mansard roof

8. Italianate nearly flat roofs wide eaves massive brackets
resembled the romantic villas of Renaissance Italy

9. Gothic revival
Medieval architecture and the Gothic age inspired the Victorian era
Victorian Gothic Revival homes are grand stone buildings like miniature castles.

10. Queen Anne nothing to do with British royalty, and Queen Anne houses
expresses the inventiveness of industrial-age builders
elaborate and eccentric
this style is often called romantic and feminine

11. Richardsonian Romanesque Style
Called Romanesque because of the styles use of round, wide arches like similar to the ones made in Ancient Rome
Suitable for grand public buildings
created by Henry Hobson Richardson

12. Music/Composers
music spanned across all social classes
amature markets made a business from selling songs and pianos
huge growth of amateur music-making and greater social access to music
improvements in training of musicians
Program notes were used by opera and concert attendees- long before their use in Europe or the US
women gradually were allowed to participate in the musical world
1881 to the mid-1890's: The Girl's Own Paper magazine ran regular features on the latest in "new music"
Limited methods of reproducing music in home; typically used musical boxes

13. W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert was a poet, dramatist and illustrator and Arthur Sullivan was an English composer. They worked on 14 different operas together from 1871 to 1896.
Thespis (1871)
Trial by Jury (1875)
Sorcerer (1877)
H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)
Pirates of Penzance (1880)
Patience (1881)
Iolanthe (1882)
Princess Ida (1884)
Mikado (1885)
Ruddigore (1887)
Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
Gondoliers (1889)
Utopia Limited (1893)
Grand Duke (1896)
The oratorio The Dream of Gerontius by Edgar Elgar, based on the poem by Cardinal John Newman, speaks on the relationship between religion and Victorian music.

14. Victorian Fashion
Fashion never evolved so quickly as it did during this time period. It had its ups and downs, literally, and overall, the clothes for both men and women changed drastically within the sixty four years of this era.

17. Literature
Victorian Literature is literature that was produced during the era of Queen Victoria
Attempted to combine Romantic emphasis on self, emotion, and imagination

18. Novels
19th century saw the novel become the leading form of literature in English.
Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives
Authors:
Charles Dickens
Brontë family; Anne, Charlotte, Emily
George Eliot
Mood/Themes:
violence
passion
romance
death
darker themes, etc.

19. Poetry Poets: Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Alfred Tennyson
Poetry
Poetry came to be in the Victorian Era
Used as a voice of criticism
Tender and passionate poems
Heroic stories of knights; medieval

20. Shakespeare productions
Playwrights:
Shakespeare
James Planché
Thomas William Robertson
H. J. Byron
Oscar Wilde
Drama
Operas
Musical Burlesques
Shakespeare productions
Serious Drama
Musical Theater