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I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the
king!“
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you go there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
“Romanticism is precisely
situated neither in choice of
subject nor in exact truth but
in a way of feeling.”
Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
What is Romanticism?
 It was NOT a movement about romance!
 It is hard to define because it was such
a fluid movement that included all of
the arts – painting, literature and
music.
 Glorification!
What is Romanticism?
 Define it by what it stood against
 The explanation of everything
 Reacting against the Scientific revolution
 Industrialization and its Dehumanization
 Starts in Late 1700s. Height 1800 – 1850.
Characteristics of Romanticism
The Engaged & Enraged Artist
 “Art with a heart” Feelings and emotions
were the fodder of the artist.
 The artist a part of but apart from
society.
 The artist as social critic/revolutionary.
Characteristics of Romanticism
The Individual
 Humanity – how individuals reacted to each
other.
 What separates us from the rest of
nature
 What was industrialization doing.
Characteristics of Romanticism
Glorification of Nature:
 Peaceful, restorative qualities
 Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of
nature.

Indifferent to the fate of humans.

Overwhelming power.
Characteristics of Romanticism
The Supernatural
 Ghosts, fairies, witches, demons.
 The shadows of the mind—dreams &
madness.
 A reaction to rationalism [an escape from
reason! Somethings cannot be explained]
Characteristics of Romanticism
Commentary on the Present:
 Ongoing portrayal of current events
 Political / social discussion
Lack of a unified Styles:
 Gothic & Romanesque revival.
 Watercolor to heavy oil
 Size, subject, layout all over the
place!
The
Enlightenment
Society is good,
curbs violent
impulses!
Early
19c
Romanticism
Civilization
corrupts the
natural order
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Think about how the Romantics viewed the
destruction of nature and the use of resources to feed
the machines of industrialization
Wandering
Above the Sea
of Fog
Caspar David
Friedrich,
1818
The Dreamer
Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835
Solitary Tree
Caspar David Friedrich, 1823
An Avalanche in the Alps
Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1803
Sunset After a Storm On the Coast of
Sicily – Andreas Achenbach, 1853
The Deluge
Francis Danby, 1840
The Polar Sea (aka The Sea of Ice)
Caspar David Friedrich, 1821
Detail of The Polar Sea
Shipwreck – Joseph Turner, 1805
The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault, 1819
The Eruption of Vesuvius - John Martin
Rain, Steam, and Speed
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1844
Rain,
Steam,
& Speed
(details)
The Slave Ship
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1842
The
Slave
Ship
(details)
Flatford Mill – John Constable, 1817
The Corn
Field
John Constable,
1826
The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Ground
John Constable, 1825
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
John Constable, 1831
Hadleigh Castle - John Constable, 1829
Eldena Ruin
Gaspar David Friedrich, 1825
Winter Landscape with Church
Gaspar David Friedrich, 1811
British Houses of Parliament
1840-1865
Cloister Cemetery in the Snow
Caspar David Friedrich, 1817-1819
Abbey in an Oak Forest
Caspar David Friedrich, 1809-1810
The Great Red
Dragon and the
Woman Clothed
with the Sun
William Blake,
1808-1810
Stonehenge - John Constable, 1836
Nightmare (The Incubus)
Henry Fuseli, 1781
Manfred and the Witch of the Alps
John Martin - 1837
Witches
Sabbath
Francisco Goya,
1798
Procession of Flagellants on Good Friday
Francisco Goya, 1793
Same by Rubens
Saturn Devours
His Son
Francisco Goya,
1819-1823
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Detail of the
Musket Bearer
Delacroix, himself
His Majesty’s Ship, “Victory”
(Trafalgar) - John Constable, 1806
An Officer of the
Imperial Horse
Guard
Théodore Géricault,
1814
Napoleon
at the
St. Bernard
Pass
David,
1803
Remember this
one – same
scene not as
“Romantic”
The Shooting of May 3, 1808
Francisco Goya, 1815
Grand Canal, Venice
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1835
Massacre of Chios - Eugène Delacroix, 1824
The Fanatics of Tangiers
Eugène Delacroix, 1837-1838
The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage
Eugène Delacroix, 1845
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Eugène Delacroix, 1834
The Turkish Bath
Jean Auguste Ingres, 1852-1863
The Bullfight - Francisco Goya
The Royal Pavillion at Brighton
John Nash, 1815-1823
God as the Architect - William Blake,
1794
Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
William Blake, 1825
Faust and Mephistopheles
Eugène Delacroix, 1826-1827
The Seventh Plague of Egypt
John Martin, 1823
The Great Age of the Novel

Gothic Novel:
 The most famous Romantic works
were 3 novels:
 Les Miserables – Hugo
 Hunchback of Notre Dame – Hugo
Frankenstein – Shelley (18 when she wrote
it)
The Great Age of the Novel

Gothic Novel:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Historical Novel:
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
The Great Age of the Novel
 Science Fiction Novel:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
 Supernatural Works:
Brothers Grimm
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Hans Christian Andersen
 Exotic Works:
Kubla Kahn – Coleridge
Other Romantic Writers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust
The Romantic Poets
 Percy Byssche Shelley
 Lord Byron (George Gordon)
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 William Wordsworth
 John Keats
 William Blake
George
Gordon’s
(Lord Byron)
Poem
The
Prisoner
of Chillon
Mary
Shelley
Frankenstein
Sir
Walter
Scott
Ivanhoe
William
Wordsworth’s
Poem,
Tintern
Abbey
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge’s
Poem,
The Rhyme
of the
Ancient
Mariner