Week 1: Romantic Period

Concepts: Medieval: Romanesque (500-1400) Medieval: Gothic (1100-1430) Renaissance (1400-1600) Baroque (1600-1760) Classical (1730-1820) Romantic (1815-1910) 20th Century (1900-2000) Contemporary (1975- present) 21st century (2000- present )

Romanticism (or the Romantic Era or the "Romantic Period" was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the industrial revolution. Revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment.

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Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples would elevate society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.