Romanticism
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Romanticism was a cultural and artistic movement that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasizing emotion, imagination, and individualism over the rationality and order of earlier periods. It matters because it fundamentally shaped how artists, writers, and thinkers approached their work, influencing everything from painting and literature to music and philosophy for generations to come.
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- Overview
- Time line
- Purpose
- Defining Romanticism
- Basic characteristics
- Etymology
- Period
- Context and place in history
- Literature
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- France
- Poland
- Russia
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- South America
- United States
- Influence of European Romanticism on American writers
- Architecture
- Visual arts
- Music
- Evolution of the term in musicology
- Outside the arts
- Sciences
- Historiography
- Theology
- Chess
- Romantic nationalism
- Polish nationalism and messianism
- Gallery
- Romantic writers
- Scholars of Romanticism
- See also
- Related terms
- Opposing terms
- Related subjects
- Related movements
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Caspar David Friedrich, [[Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818]] thumb|right|Eugène Delacroix, [[Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron]] thumb|Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.