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1 Art in the Romantic Era

2 The Death of Marat by David 1793

3 David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800

4 David, Coronation of Napoleon, 1805-7

5 detail, Coronation

6 Arc de Triomphe, Paris 1806-37

7 Aspects of Romanticism in music & art The Engaged & Enraged Artist Nature Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness exoticism “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance

8 Engaged and enraged THE ARTIST APART FROM SOCIETY THE ARTIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC/REVOLUTIONARY THE ARTIST AS GENIUS ARE WE NOT STILL IN THE ROMANTIC ERA?

9 Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 text p. 334

10 Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 text p. 336

11 Goya, Disasters of War Brave Deeds Against the Dead Etching Political communication

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13 Nature peaceful, restorative, an escape; The Picturesque awesome, powerful, horrifying, overwhelming, indifferent to the fate of humans; The Sublime the language of God (edited) an inner emotional (subjective) state

14 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821 text p. 338

15 Constable Salisbury Cathedral 1826 God as nature, nature as God.

16 Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Mists, c. 1817-18 text p. 337

17 FRIEDRICH, Caspar David The Sea of Ice, c. 1823-25, Oil on canvas, 96.7 x 126.9 cm

18 J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1842 text p. 340

19 detail, The Slave Ship

20 Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Rain, Steam and Speed 1844, Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48 in. text p. 340

21 detail

22 Constable Turner

23 The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault 1819

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25 Church, Frederic Edwin Rainy Season in the Tropics 1866, Oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 84 3/16 in. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

26 Church, Frederic Edwin, The Icebergs 1861, Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in

27 Bierstadt, Albert Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California 1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm text p. 341

28 The Supernatural ghosts, fairies, witches, demons, etc. the shadows of the mind – dreams & madness reaction to Rationalism? (1 st witch scare during the Renaissance) – the escape from Reason

29 Delacroix Méphistophélès dans les airs, 1828 No. 2 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust

30 Delacroix Faust dans la prison de Marguerite, 1828 No. 18 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust

31 Goya, The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters 1796-8 etching text p. 345

32 Goya Kronos devouring his children

33 Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1819-23 text p. 345

34 Theodore Gericault Mad Woman with a Mania of Envy 1822-23 Study of the insane

35 Goya The Lunatics

36 Exoticism the sexy Other psychological/moral justification of imperialism? England is exotic to the Italians, Italy exotic to the English! a sense of escape?

37 Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1826 p. 333

38 detail, Sardanapalus

39 Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique La Grand Odalisque 1814 Oil on canvas

40 detail

41 Jean Auguste Ingres, The Turkish Bath, c1852-63 text p. 344

42 detail, Ingres

43 Portrait of a Negress Marie Guillemine Benoist, 1800 Political comment on the rights of women? p. 327

44 John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823 text p. 343

45 John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823 text p. 343

46 Revival of past styles Gothic & Romanesque revival free mixture of stylistic elements Gothic verticality & asymmetry

47 Fonthill Abbey 1823 The most influential collapsed building? aka “Beckford’s folly” mentioned in text p. 342

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49 Fonthill, painting of the interior by the architect, James Wyatt

50 Cole, The Architect’s Dream, 1840

51 Thomas Cole, The Return, 1837

52 Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65 text p. 343

53 Lyndhurst 1838-1842

54 Trinity Church, Boston 1877 Richardson

55 An English building in India

56 Aspects of Romanticism in music & art The Engaged & Enraged Artist Nature Supernatural, demonic exoticism “ancient” (Medieval or folk –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance

57 Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 text p. 336 Engaged & enraged: political critique

58 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821 text p. 338 NATURE: The Picturesque

59 Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Mists, c. 1817-18 p. 337 NATURE: The Sublime

60 Goya, The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters 1796-8 etching p. 345 The escape from REASON

61 John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823 text p. 343 EXOTICISM: another escape from Reason

62 Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65 text p. 342 The escape from Reason, Part 3: REVIVAL OF THE PRE-RENAISSANCE PAST

63 La Marselliaise by Francois Rude


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