William wordsworth was known helped launch the Romantic Era with the help of his best friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His life was plagued by death and he had suffered many terrible losses. He lost 2 of his siblings when they were young and lost both of his parents making him an orphan at...
This picture represents the Storming of the Bastille that happened in 1789. The storming of the Bastille was the start of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison. This is signifcant to the Romanticism period because many of the writers of the period had thoughts and opinions about the French Revolution. They published their thoughts and everyone was able to read about them.
In the 18th Century a great Revolution began in Europe, one calling for change and reformation of its government. This Revolution began due to many of the people suffering from oppression by the monachary in France. This age created a new outlook on life and gave writers and artist a new way to express themselves. Romantism was born during the French Revolution. The French Revolution and Romanticism created a fierce reaction in the people and ignited the search for a more direct communication with nature and its creatures. A political writer by the name of Edmund Burke wrote ...
Thomas Cole painted A Wild Scene in 1831-1832. This painting exemplifies the values of Romanticism, in particular the emphasis on the relationship between human spirituality and nature, which had not previously been examined during the Enlightenment. Romanticism marked a shift away from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment because rather than stressing scientific observation and personal achievement, Romantics took a more holistic, empirical worldview.
In this painting, humans are depicted as being part of nature rather than superior beings. Nature is seen as...
On December 2, 1804 at Notre-Dame de Paris in France, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned as Emperor of the French. After placing the crown on his own head, Napoleon elected to crown his wife, Josephine, as Empress himself. The image shows Josephine kneeling before Napoleon to be crowned. The women holding Josephine's train are Napoleon's sisters. While the coronation was controversial, it is very important to the Romantic era.
The year of 1816, the year that Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron spent their time in Geneva together, was known in Europe as "the year without a summer". This was due to the eruption of Mount Tambora in present-day Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies), quite possibly the most powerful eruption in recorded history (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research [UCAR], 2012). The amount of ash sent into the atmosphere caused cooler temperatures by nearly three degrees Celsius (UCAR, 2012) around the world, causing many crops to fail. Beyond the temperature, the weather...
This print portrays Lord Byron as the quintessential Romantic poet. He sits in three-quarter view, his face turned in profile to the left and resting on his right hand in the archetypal thinking pose. His short curly hair is slightly ruffled, and he wears an elegant shirt that is slightly open at the neck, a rumpled coat, and a cape draped over his left shoulder. A clasp or pin at his collar is his sole ornament. Byron appears to be sitting in a cave that opens onto a sublime landscape, dimly seen, of mountains, rugged terrain, moonlight, and clouds.3This print portrays Lord Byron as the...
British poet Lord Byron died when he contracted a fever in 1824 while waiting for battle in Greece, and after he passed his body was returned to England. Lord Byron was known for his love of dogs, so of course he wished to be buried by his famously known childhood dog, Boatswain, at Newstead Abbey, his home from 1808-1814. He was refused to be buried there, partially because the house was sold in 1817 and partly because of his morals being questionable, so Lord Byron was buried in his family vault at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Nottinghamshire, England. Pictured is the marble plaque that...
In “Concerning Geffray Teste Noire,” Morris engages with the dramatic monologue, the Victorians’ greatest poetic innovation. Morris experiments with the form throughout his first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere (1858), in which “Teste Noire” first appeared. Critics generally cite Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning as the two primary creators of the form, though recently some critics have argued that Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon originated the form earlier in the century. While Tennyson and Browning composed monologues as early as the 1830s, the form found...
The York Minister is the largest gothic cathedral, dating back to the Middle Ages. Construction took over 250 years, and is the most popular cathedral in Great Britain. The Romantic Era is known for the revival of Gothic architecture from medieval times. The Gothic style is determined by rising naves, and having more light enter the cathedral.
This cathedral has rising pillars, a south and north transept with stained-glass windows made from grisaille glass, along with flying buttresses used to support the structure.
