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18th c Art and Architecture
Romanticism
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
03/05/2011

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lithography
Definition
- Greek, 'to write'
- A method for printing using a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface.
- Invented in 1796 by Bavarian author Alois Senefelder as a low-cost method of publishing theatrical works.
-Lithography can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another suitable material.
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Sublime
Definition
- An aesthetic concept that originated in ancient Greece and played a particularly important part in 18th-century writings about art.
- It denoted a category of aesthetic experience
-Associated with ideas of awe and vastness
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Odalisque
Definition
The image of a sensual harem woman--or odalisque--graced many a canvas in the 19th and even early 20th centuries.
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Family of Charles IV
Francisco Goya
1800
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Romanticism
Definition
Seemingly endless succession of crises and major events, (the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, the rise of industrialism) the West found a need to believe in something other than the Enlightenment values of logic and scientific empiricism.
Characteristics:
- Turing inward to the self, and a belief in the subjective emotion of the individual
- powerful emotion, intuition, and unrestrained creative genius
- Powerful emotions in response to violence, suffering, chaos, and ugliness replaced virtuous and noble actions
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Third of May, 1808
Francisco Goya
1814-1815
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Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard
Jacques-Louis David
1800-1801
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Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa
Antoine-Jean Gros
1804
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The Raft of "Medusa"
Theodore Gericault
1818-1819
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Study of Hands and Feet
Theodore Gericault
1818-1819
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Liberty Leading the People: July 28th 1830
Eugene Delacroix
1830
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Rue Transnonain, Le 15 Avril 1834
Honore Daumier
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Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying--Typhoon Coming On ("The Slave Ship")
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1840
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Monk by the Sea
Caspar David Friedrich
1809
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Large Odalisque
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1814
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