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How is Romanticism different from the Enlightenment?
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Romanticism
Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, 1830; in the Louvre, Paris.
Romanticism emerged as a reaction against the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason, order, and rationality. While the Enlightenment celebrated intellect and scientific discovery, Romanticism championed emotion, imagination, and the individual experience. Romanticism valued intuition and subjective feelings over objective analysis, finding beauty and truth in nature, the exotic, and the mysterious, whereas the Enlightenment focused on understanding the universe through logic and empirical evidence.1234