Romanticism

• Period and events that preceded it

- A late 18th century art and literature movement that emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of an individual

• What is it?

• How was it different?

- Renaissance era as well as the Enlightenment period

• Prominent artists and their works

-Romanticism was a time of Nature and divinity and creativity - everything that focused on imagination

- The Enlightenment was a time of science and structure -focuses on reality

- Liberty Leading the People - Eugène Delacroix

- Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven

• Themes

- History, political undertones, human formation, divinity