Romanticism

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Romanticism
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Romanticism, or the Romantic movement, was a movement, or style of art, literature and music in the late 18th and the early 19th century in Europe.

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Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 38.58 × 29.13 inches, 1818, Oil on canvas, Kunsthalle Hamburg.

The movement believed that feelings, imagination, nature, human life, freedom of expression, individualism and old folk traditions, such as legends and fairy tales, were important.[1] It was a reaction to the aristocratic social and political ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and of the Industrial Revolution.[1][2]

It was also a reaction against turning nature into mere science.[2]

The movement showed most strongly in arts like music and literature. However, it also had an important influence on historiography,[3] education,[4] and natural history.[5]

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Examples

United Kingdom

British Romanticism was notable, as the United Kingdom was an early adopter of industrialization and science. It included figures like the following:

Germany

During the same period as in Britain, a notable Romantic movement occurred in Germany. Important motifs were travel, nature, and Germanic myths. It included figures like the following:

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