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Sir Walter Scott Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell, showing her seated with a slight smile, wearing a dark off-the-shoulder dress against a muted background. Charlotte Brontë J.M.W. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway William Blake: Pity Painting The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault shows a group of desperate shipwreck survivors crowded on a makeshift raft, some signaling for help, surrounded by turbulent sea.
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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, 1830; in the Louvre, Paris.

Romanticism

art movement
Also known as: Romantic Style, Romantic movement
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Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism...

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