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Unit: Romanticism

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Romanticism—an introduction

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A beginner's guide to Romanticism
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France

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Romanticism in France
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Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
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Ingres, Portrait of Madame Rivière
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Ingres, Napoleon on His Imperial Throne
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Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer
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Ingres, La Grande Odalisque
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Between Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Ingres, La Grande Odalisque
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Painting colonial culture: Ingres's La Grand Odalisque
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Ingres, Princesse de Broglie
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Ingres, Raphael and the Fornarina
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Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
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Géricault, Portraits of the Insane
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Eugène Delacroix, an introduction
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Delacroix, Scene of the Massacre at Chios
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Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus
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The cost of war: Delacroix, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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Rude, La Marseillaise
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Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa Get 4 of 5 questions to level up!
Ingres, La Grande Odalisque Get 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Géricault, Raft of the MedusaGet 4 of 5 questions to level up!
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the PeopleGet 4 of 5 questions to level up!
Romanticism in France Get 7 of 10 questions to level up!

Spain

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Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
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Goya, The Family of Charles IV
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Goya, And there's nothing to be done (from the Disasters of War)
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Art historical analysis (painting), a basic introduction using Goya's Third of May, 1808
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Goya, Third of May, 1808
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Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son
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Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (quiz)Get 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Goya, The Third of May Get 4 of 5 questions to level up!

England (Blake and Fuseli)

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Romanticism and the Victorian Era
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Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare
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Fuseli, Titania and Bottom
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Blake, The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
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Blake, The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan
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Room: William Blake
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Fuseli, The Nighmare Get 4 of 5 questions to level up!

England (Constable, Turner, Martin and Nash)

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Constable and the English Landscape
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Constable, Wivenhoe Park
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Constable, The Hay Wain (Landscape: Noon)
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Constable, View on the Stour near Dedham
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Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
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Who is JMW Turner?
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Turner, The Harbour of Dieppe
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Turner, The Fighting Temeraire
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Turner, Slave Ship
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J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm
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Turner, Rain, steam, and speed – the great western railway
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Turner's gallery: on the left
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Turner's gallery: opposite the door
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Turner's gallery: the back wall
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Turner's gallery: on the right
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Room: JMW Turner
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Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath
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John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
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Constable, View on the Stour near Dedham Get 4 of 5 questions to level up!
Turner's Slave Ship Get 3 of 4 questions to level up!
Romanticism in England Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!

Germany

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Friedrich, Monk by the Sea
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Friedrich, Monk By The Sea
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Friedrich, Abbey among Oak Trees
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Friedrich, The Lone Tree
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Friedrich, Woman at a Window
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Friedrich, Monk By the SeaGet 4 of 5 questions to level up!
Friedrich, Abbey among Oak TreesGet 4 of 5 questions to level up!
German RomanticismGet 7 of 9 questions to level up!
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Brought to you by Smarthistory. Artists such as Delacroix, Goya, Turner, and Friedrich responded to a newly modern world by creating some of the most emotionally expressive art ever made.