Romantic Movement Flashcards
(39 cards)
Immanuel Kant
In Critique of Pure/Practical Reason; believed in limited rationalism; categorical imperative
Rousseau
Father of romantic movement; Emile
Samuel Coleridge
Master of gothic poems concerning supernatural; Rime of Ancient Mariner
William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey
Lord Byron
Died helping Greeks in revolution; She Walks in Beauty
She Walks in Beauty
About a beautiful girl with a powerful presence (Birth of Venus); Byron
Percy Shelley
Died at sea doing what he loves (boats); Ode to the West Wind
Ode on a Grecian Urn
People frozen in time; Keats
Ode to the West Wind
Bad may come, good will follow; Shelley
John Keats
Died from tuberculosis he contracted from his brother; Ode on a Grecian Urn
Sturm and Drang
German literacy movement encouraging unification
Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust; encouraged Germany to avoid corruption
Johann Schiller
William Tell; sparks nationalism by encouraging Germans to stand up to France
Johann Herder
Advocated preserving German culture; defined volkgeist as a nation’s spirit
The Grimm brothers
Published a collection of German folk tales known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales; frowned upon because of its risky content
Madame de Stael
Bridged neoclassicism to romanticism; owned a salon for intellectuals; theorist; epitomized European cultures; Corine; Considerations on the French Revolution
Victor Hugo
French; Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables
Alexander Pushkin
Dominant Russian writer; I Have Visited Again; died in a duel for his wife
Baroque style art
Extravagant; bizarre; in response to Protestant reformation
Rococo style art
Called late baroque; more playful than classical baroque; excessive decoration
Neoclassicism
Revival of classic antiquity; Greek and roman styles; morally serious; reaction to the excess of preceding rococo style
Romanticism
Revolt against aristocratic norms and scientific rationalization; aesthetic
Francisco Goya
3rd of May; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
3rd of May 1808
Commemorates Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s army during Peninsular Wars