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Death of Sardanapalus Eugene Delacroix Date: 1827, Oil on canvas * Sardanapalus is the last Assyrian King based on Byron's poem "Sardanapalus". Delacroix depicts not a hero but a King too lazy to fight or flee and so committed suicide along with destroying all his possessions, including the living ones. * Has Rubinesque traits of "Massacre at Chios" are intensified here. The scene is very claustrophobic and chaotic in this crammed room stuffed with the Kings worldly possessions. There is terror and horror and violence, yet the King seems irrationally unsympathetic and mentally as well as emotionally indifferent to it all.

Romantic period 1749-1848

Scenes of the Massacre at Chios Eugene Delacroix Date: 1824, Oil on canvas * Inspired by Gericault's "The Raft of the Medusa" and Gros's "Pesthouse at Jaffa" * Compendium of misery and suffering * Depicts the turkish massacre of the Greek island of Chios, Delacroix's intention is to show support for Greek independence and to express the Romantic passion for democracy and individual freedom. * Foreground shows Greeks rounded up for execution but the painting is missing any violence. Figures are also twisting and turning in resignation and a sense of hopelessness and suffering. * color rendering is influenced by Rubens * Baudelaire used the term "Romantic" and is the first the word had been applied to a visual artist.

Romantic period 1749-1848

Women of Algiers Eugene Delacroix Date: 1834, Oil on canvas * Delacroix's painting becomes more colorful yet also looser. He's asked to document duc de Mornay's trip to Morocco, Delacroix would paint him hundreds of watercolors. His brushstroke technique , use of color and style of painting would establish an early platform for impressionism. * Here he gets special permission to enter the exotic world of a harem.

Romantic period 1749-1848

Fonthill Abbey James Wyatt Location: Fonthill Gifforrd, Wiltshire, England Date: 1796-1813 * Beckford wanted to upstage Strawberry Hill and build a medieval home that had the awe and gloom of Gothic romance novels. * It resembles Gothic cathedrals * It's tower is huge compared to Strawberry hills and did inspire awe despite being so large it collapsed twice. In 1825 the tower collapsed again essentially destroying the building.

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Portrait of an Insane Man (Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank) Theodore Gericault Date: 1822-23, Oil on Canvas * The romantic periods is fascinated with mental illness. Gericault possibly is the first to paint of such issues or best captures the subjects nervousness, fear and sternness from his delusions of importance. * This is a huge contrast to paintings of the classical era that depict beauty and elegance.

Romantic period 1749-1848 Contrast: Question, is there a possibility we will we be required to compare/contrast any prior slides with the current chapters. ? Portrait of Madame Ines Moitessier Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingress Date: 1856, Oil on canvas * Ingres's Portrait of madame Ines Moitessier is the embodiment of perfection and poise, goddesslike. Gericault's insance man is the emblem of imperfection, a reflection than of the romantic era's interest in the darker and uglier side of the mind and emotions instead of celestial beings and beauty in classical works.

The Raft of the Medusa Theodore Gericault Date: 1818-19, Oil on canvas *Clearly seen classical statuesque nudes and baroque style lighting color and darkness very similar to Caravaggio's. Only thing missing is a religious message to make this painting Baroque, but it's not Baroque but wholly romantic. *An emotionally charged event and painting. The captain of the Medusa ship callously sets adrift 150 people on a raft, most died during those 2 weeks before sighting another ship which is the moment Gericault painted. Thus this romantic piece is about the harrowing mental and physical experience of survival against nature adrift at sea rather than accusing the captain of cruelty. * Michelangeloesque nudes which reflects his newly learned studies of classical models. Also seen in this painting is a baroque style very like Caravaggio's. The painting makes you experience the severe terror of facing starvation, thirst, suffering and a slow agonizing death. Though it seems there is a glimmer of hope with one figure waving at the sea, the ship is unseen.

Romantic period 1749-1848 Clearly seen classical statuesque nudes and baroque style lighting color and darkness very similar to Caravaggio's. Only thing missing is a religious message to make this painting Baroque, but it's not Baroque but wholly romantic.

Charging Chasseur (cavalryman) Theodore Gericault Date: 1812, Oil on canvas * Famous I think cause it's emotionally charged heroism and few were made of the Chasseur. * Made during Napoleon's Russian Campaign, it's about heroic valor. Shows raw emotion and physical tension, no classical reasoning, romantic. * Twisting Chasseur and horse embody physical and psychological forces that consume fighters in the heat of battle. * No formal training so the twisting soldier looks odd, missing the Neoclassical rules of beauty.

Romantic period 1749-1848 Famous I think cause it's emotionally charged heroism and few were made of the Chasseur.

House of Parliament Sir Charles Barry and A.W.N. Welby Pugin Location: London, Begun 1836 * Revival architects satisfy their romantic desires through historicism, exoticism, the picturesque, and other associated qualities. * Old building burned down, new building was to be built in Gothic or Elizabethan, 91 of the 97 entries were Gothic. * Building was laid out in orderly symmetrical fashion. * Designed in the Florid Perpendicular style. * Designed to be picturesque instead of sublime or grandiose.

Romantic period 1749-1848 Gothic Reival

Burial at Ornans Gustave Courbet (french realist) Date: 1849-50 Oil on canvas * At the time, Courbet was the leading artist of Realism, a type of documentation of real everyday events. * The realism here is an actual Burial in Ornans, Courbet's home town. It depicts real people and an actual burial event without any heroic story or grandeur or elegance of classicism, it even lacks any romantic emotions or idealizations. The realists painted what they saw right now and in THEIR lives, not about some event they never experienced or created some idealized illusion, the present reality was interesting enough to paint, including any unkempt hair, wrinkled faces. Everyone is of equal importance here, even the dog is as important as the priest and mayor.

The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Per-Raphaelites 1848-1885 French Realist

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere Edouard Manet Date: 1881-82, Oil on canvas * Manet's last great Realist masterpiece. * Has qualities not typically found in Realism or Impressionism. * Manet paints a second floor bar, we can see the main floor below. Behind the barmaid we can see the Paris nightlife at the time. * However, Manet depicts the barmaid working at the Folies-Bargere, an expensive place for the well to do, as sad despite being surrounded by such wealth.