#romantic movement

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Romantic Encounter - Mihály von Zichy

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Details from the painting Medea meditating on killing her children (1852), by Bezzuoli.

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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) "The Cemetery Entrance" (1825) Oil on canvas Romanticism Located in the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

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Anatomical Pieces (1819) by Théodore Géricault

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‘Her tender touch was all but a dream;

Unfurl sweet rosebud, holding morning dew,

By night the rose is gilded by frost’s gleam

What dawn proposes, dusk demeans’

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The Bard

Artist: John Martin (English, 1789–1854)

Date: circa 1817

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Description

Painted around 1817, at the height of the Romantic movement, John Martin’s version of The Bard unites the drama of the poem by Thomas Gray, published in 1757, with a vision of sublime landscape. The Bard stands amid an overwhelming and powerful landscape with ominous clouds, a raging river, and dramatic cliffs evoking the sublime, a combined sense of awe and terror, in the viewer. The Bard’s disproportionate size, particularly in comparison to the advancing troops of Edward I below, makes him seem an element of the landscape, a landmark in his own right.

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Palette of Eugene Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix, Seated Figure in Turkish Costume (Possibly Monsieur J. B. Pierret), circa 1825.

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Robert Burns, Scottish poet

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'Pagan' Ritual N.udity

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The Love Potion - Mihály von Zichy

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Detail from the painting Mary Magdalene (1860), by Julius Hübner.

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Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) "Gust of Wind" (c. 1872) Oil on canvas Realism Located in the National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales

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Novalis (translated by Robert Bly) from News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

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''𝐓h𝐞 𝐢n𝐯i𝐬i𝐛l𝐞 𝐢s r𝐞a𝐥. S𝐨u𝐥s h𝐚v𝐞 𝐭h𝐞i𝐫 𝐰o𝐫l𝐝.''

Alfred de Vigny, Poèmes Philosophiques

[annariadne]

"And I will make thee beds of Roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;"

(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Christopher Marlowe.)