Arts of the

Romantic
Period
Romanticism
•Romanticism highly
contrasts Neoclassicism.
It is a reaction to the
classical and
contemplative/serious
nature of Neoclassical
pieces.
Romanticism
•It seeks
modernism and
expresses
emotion through
art.
Romanticism
•It embraced a number
of distinctive themes,
such as longing for
history, supernatural
elements, social
injustices and nature.
Romanticism
•Landscape painting
also became more
popular due to the
peoples' romantic
adoration of nature.
ROMANTIC
PAINTING
•The paintings of the
Romantic period gave
more emphasis on
emotion. Artists
expressed as much
feeling and passion as
it could be on a
canvas.
 Painters of
the Romantic
Period
•Jean Louis
Theodore Gericault
•Eugene Delacroix
•Francisco Goya
Jean Louis Theodore
Gericault
•He was an
influential French
painter and
lithographer.
Famous artworks:
•The raft of the
Medusa
•Charging Chasseur
•Insane Woman
The Raft of the Medusa
•It portrays the victims
of a contemporary
shipwreck. The people
in this raft were
French emigrants en
route to West Africa.
 Charging Chasseur or
An officer of the Imperial
Horse Guards Charging
•It portrays a mounted
Napoleonic cavalry
officer who is ready to
attack.
Insane Woman
•One of several
portraits
Gericault made of
the mentally
disabled.
•A woman addicted to
gambling
•A child snatcher
•A woman suffering from
obsessive envy
•A kleptomaniac
•A man suffering from
delusions of military
command.
Eugene Delacroix
•He was considered
the greatest French
Romantic painter of
all.
Famous artwork:
•Liberty leading the
People
Liberty leading the
People
•This painting
commemorates the
July Revolution of
1830.
•It depicts a woman
holding the flag of
the French
Revolution
personifies Liberty
and leads the people
forward over the
bodies of the fallen.
Francisco Goya
•He was a
commissioned
Romantic painter by
the King of Spain.
•He was also a
printmaker
regarded both as
the last of the "Old
Masters" and the
first of the
"Moderns".
Famous artworks:
•The Third of May
•Saturn Devouring
His Son
•The Burial of
Sardine
TheThird of May
•Goya's masterpiece that
sought to commemorate
Spanish resistance to
Napoleon's armies
during the occupation of
1808 in the Peninsular
War
Saturn Devouring His
Son
•It depicts the Greek
Myth of the Titan
Cronus, who fears that
he would be overthrown
by one of his children, so
he ate each one upon
their birth.
The Burial of Sardine
•It was a Spanish
ceremony celebrated
on Ash Wednesday
and was a symbolical
burial of the past to
allow a society to be
reborn.
ROMANTIC
SCULPTURES
•Romantic sculpture
can be divided into
works that concern
about the human
world and those
that concern the
natural world.
Sculptors of the
Romantic Period
•Francois Rude
•Antoine Louis
Barye
Francois Rude
•He was best known
for his social art
which aimed to
inspire and capture
the interest of a
broad public.
Famous artworks:
•Departure of the
Volunteers
•Jeanne d' Arc or
Joan of Arc
Departure of the
Volunteers
•This work portrays
the Goddess Liberty
urging the forces of
the French
Revolution onward.
Jeanne D' Arc/Joan
of Arc
•Nicknamed
"The Maid of
Orleans"
•She is considered as
heroine of France
for her role during
the 100 years' wars,
and was canonized
as a Roman Catholic
Saint.
Antoine Louis Barye
•He was the most
famous animal sculptor
of all time. He studied
the anatomy of his
subjects by sketching
residents of the Paris
zoo.
Famous artworks:
•Hercules sitting
on a bull
•Theseus Slaying
the Minotaur
Hercules sitting on a
bull
•Depicting Hercules
where he had to
capture a live wild
boar from Mount
Erymanthos.
Theseus Slaying the
Minotaur
• Depicts Theseus
preparing to kill the
monstrous
Minotaur -half-man,
half-bull.
Gothic Revival
Architecture
•Gothic revival also
referred to as
Victorian Gothic or
Neo-Gothic, is an
architectural
movement that
began in the late
1740's in England.
•Neogothic buildings
feature a castellation
in which the walls
and towers are
crenellated in
imitation of medieval
castles.
•Neogothic buildings
have been often
referred to as
"castles", even
though they never
served as a defensive
structure.
•Bricks and stones
were both
commonly used.
Strawberry Hill
Strawberry Hill
• The most famous
work of the
decorative phase of
the Gothic Revival.
Architects who used
Neogothic Style:
•Charles Barry
•James Renwick
Charles Barry
•Was the name
behind Britain's
foremost Gothic
Revival monument,
the Westminster
Palace.
James Renwick
•Renwick's crowning
American work is
the St. Patrick's
Cathedral (New
York)