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Romanticism:, Madrid, Spain, Niagara, United States, Westminster, London,…
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Madrid, Spain
1778
It captures a quintessential romantic interest: the limit of reason and the power of irrational over human fragile minds.
Goya produces one of his most iconic images titled "The Sleep of reason produces Monsters". To be romantic is to have sympathy for madness and to hold an almost vengeful attitude towards the triumph of rationality science and logic.
Niagara, United States
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Thomas Cole paints one of his most characteristic images of the mighty Niagara Falls with a couple native Americans in the foreground.
Westminster, London
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14 years after officials burned down Britain's parliament, a new building designed by Augustus Pugin reopens.
The new building was designed to look old. It is filled with armor and seated angels.
Saint German, Paris
May 1863
Budelaire introduces the figure of "Flaneur" that is the man who wanders through the streets of the city experiencing emotions in observing the landscape
Charles Baudelaire writes a prose poem celebrating an usual character whom he calls Flàneur. He is a wanderer who spends his time observing the busy street life of a modern city.
Le Havre
April 1891
The romantic movement, has permanently changed our sensibilities as the world has grown ever more technological and rational.
Paul Gauguin set sail for Tahiti , hoping to escape everything that is artificial and convenctional.
He lives in the pacific south seas on and off for the rest of his life drawing young native women.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes a book about the raising of children: "Emile, or On Education". It contains diatribes against the oppressive world of adults and praises the spontaneity and wisdom of little children.
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May 1762
For the first time in western history importance is given to the innocence and sweetness of children.
Thomas Chatterton downs some arsenic and ends his life in a tiny attic apartment. He kills himself because no one wants to publish his poetry and also due to pressure from his family who wanted him to become a lawyer.
Brook street, London
August 1770
A cult develops with him, emblem of something that will become very important for romantics: the idea of a sensitive, condemned person, often an artist rejected by a cruel and vulgar world.
Goethe publishes the quintessential romantic love story: "The sorrows of young Werther": The young Werther falls passionately in love with Carlotta, betrothed to the discreet and staid Alberto, she accepts Werther's devotion and a relationship of affectionate friendship is born between the two. When Carlotta realizes she loves him and grants him a kiss, she abruptly moves away from him, in order not to break her promise to Alberto. For Werther life loses all meaning and with a gun asked to Alberto kills himself.
Leipzig, Germany
1774
Napoleon declares it the greatest work of European literature. This work radically changes the way many people think about love, favoring feelings over lineage and money. For romantics it is always right and noble to follow the heart.
William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy move to Dove Cottage.
Here Wordsworth will write some of the greatest poetry in english language. The main theme of his works is the natural world.
Wordsworth had a hatred of all things mechanical and industrial.
example: Wordsworth and his followers diverted a train which was to pass through the lake district
The Lake district, England
December 1799
wordsworth believed that we human beings are part of nature and through it we can rediscover moral and spiritual values.
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