Romantic Period

(1800-1810)
Painting
 Romantic Painting
1. Jean Louis
Theodore Gericault

• Is the first French

master and the leader
of the French realistic
school.
• His masterpieces are
energetic, powerful,
brilliantly colored, and
tightly composed.
Famous Artwork
The Raft of Medusa

Portrays the victims of

a contemporary
shipwreck. The people
on this aft were French
emigrants en route to
West Africa.
Famous Artwork
Charging Chasseur

His first major work

revealed the influence
of the style of Rubens
and an interest in the
depiction
contemporary matter.
Famous Artwork
Insane Woman

He made of the
mentally disabled that
has a peculiar hypnotic
power.
 Romantic Painting
2. Eugene Delacroix

considered the
greatest French
Romantic painter of all.

the most influential to

the most of the
Romantic painters
Famous Artwork
Liberty Leading the
People
This painting
commemorates the July
Revolution of 1830, which
toppled King Charles X of
France. A woman
personifies Liberty and
leads the people forward
over the bodies of the
fallen, holding the flag of
the French Revolution.
Famous Artwork
Dante and Virgil in Hell

A inspiration significant
from literature and
authors such as Dante
Alighieri and
Shakespeare William
Delacroix The Complete
Famous Artwork
Massacre at Chios

It pictured an incident in
which 20, 000 Greeks
were killed by Turks on
the island of Chios
 Romantic Painting
3. Francisco Goya

Is a commissioned
Romantic painter by the
King of Spain.

He is also a printmaker
regarded as both as the last
of the Old Masters and the
first of the Moderns.
Famous Artwork
The Third of May

This commemorates
painting Spanish
resistance to Napoleon's
armies during the
occupation of 1808 in
Peninsular War.
Famous Artwork
Saturn Devouring His
son

This artwork depicts the

Greek myth of Titan
Cronus who fears that he
would be overthrown by
one of his children, so he
ate each one upon their
birth.
Famous Artwork
The Burial of Sardine

Was a Spanish
ceremony celebrated
on Ash Wednesday
and was a symbolical
burial of the past allow
society to be reborn,
transformed with new
vigor.
 Landscape Painting
Landscape painting depicts the physical world
that surrounds us and includes features such as
mountains, valleys, vegetation, and bodies of
water.

Landscape art ranges from highly detailed and

realistic to impressionistic, romantic and
idealized.
 Famous Landscape Artist
1. Theodore Rousseau
Der Kleine Fischer
Landscape with a Plowman
 Famous Landscape Artist
2. Jean-Baptiste-
Camille-Corot
The Church of Marissel
Le Repos Sous Les Saules
Romantic sculptor
and their sculpture
 Romantic Sculpture
1. Francois Rude

was best known for his

social art which
inspires and captures
the interest of a broad
public
Departure of Volunteers
Jeanne D’ Arc
 Romantic Sculpture
2. Antoine-Louis
Barye

was the famous

animal sculptor of all
time, studied the
anatomy of his
subjects by sketching
residents of the Paris
Zoo.
Hercules sitting on a bull
Theseus slaying the minotaur
Architecture
 Gothic Revival Architecture
Gothic Revival Architecture Gothic revival is also
referred to as Victorian Gothic or Neo-Gothic.

Feature castellation which is characterizing

crenellated walls and towers in imitation of
medieval castles.
Gothic Revival became widely used in churches
and civic buildings throughout the West esp.
Great Britain and the United States.
 Architects who uses Neo-Gothic
Style
1. Charles Barry

Is the name behind

Britain's Gothic
Monument foremost
Revival the Westminter
Palace
 Architects who uses Neo-Gothic
Style
2. James Renwick

Has his crowning

American work, the St.
Patrick's Cathedral