Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Romanticism in painting flourished between 1810 and 1850. It set itself against the strictness of David's Neoclassicism: less cold reason, more emotion, movement, and torment.
With Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, painting became a mirror of passion and political drama. By putting color above line, they opened the way to Impressionism.
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- 2Breaking with the academic order
- 3Géricault and The Raft of the Medusa
- 4Delacroix: color, liberty, the East
- 5The legacy of Romanticism
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary10 terms explained in a tap.
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