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9
 UNIT III
ARTS OF THE
ROMANTIC
PERIOD
LESSON
ART OF THE
7
ROMANTIC
PERIOD
page: 220-227
 ROMANTIC PERIOD

 18th - 19th century

 Quickly spread throughout Europe and the United States
 ROMANTICISM
 It is a reaction to the classical, contemplative nature of
Neoclassical pieces. It seeks modernism and expresses
emotion through art.
 The artists emphasized that sense and emotions - not
simply reason and order - were equally important means of
understanding and experiencing the world.
 Romanticist practitioners found their voices across all
genres, including literature, music, art, and architecture.
 ARTISTS OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD
 QUESTION

WHO ARE THE THREE (3)

FAMOUS ARTISTS FROM THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD?
 ARTISTS OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD

EUGENE THEODORE WILLIAM

DELACROIX GERICAULT TURNER
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• EUGENE
DELACROIX
• Born: April 26, 1798
• from France
• He was the leading artists
of the French Romantic
period.
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• EUGENE
DELACROIX
• He was the most influential to
most of Romantic painters and
eventually, his technique was
adopted and extended by the
Impressionist artists.
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS PAINTINGS
• He portrayed subjects fraught with extreme emotion, dramatic conflicts and
violence.
• He painted pictures that include action and adventure.

• Common Subjects: history, literature and music, he worked with bold colors and
free brushwork.

• His early paintings had religious subjects.

FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX

WHAT ARE THE FAMOUS

ARTWORKS BY EUGENE
DELACROIX.
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• Paintings inspired from
literature.
 1822 - “Dante and Virgil in Hell”
 Exhibited at the prestigious Paris
Salon.
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• Historical Events
 1824 – “The Massacre at
Chios”
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• Historical Events
 1826 – “Greece on the
Ruins of Missolonghi”
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• 1827 – “Death of
Sardanapalus”
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• “Liberty Leading the People”
– Response to 1830 July
Revolution, in which a woman
holding a French flag leads a
band of fighters from all social
classes
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• 1834 - “The Women of
Algiers in Their Apartment”
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• 1837 - “Moroccan
Chieftain Receiving
Tribute”
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• 1840 - “The Lion Hunt”
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• FAMOUS WORKS
• Murals for the Church of Saint-
Sulpice in Paris
• “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”
– A scene of intense physical combat
between two figures in a dark
forest.
 FERDINAND EUGENE
VICTOR DELACROIX
• DIED
• August 13, 1863 in Paris
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
GERICAULT
• THEODORE
GERICAULT
• Born: September 26, 1791
• from Rouen, France
• He was the first French master and
the leader of the French realistic
school.
• His masterpieces were energetic,
powerful, brilliantly colored, and
tightly composed.
JEAN LOUIS THEODORE
GERICAULT

WHAT ARE THE FAMOUS

ARTWORKS BY THEODORE
GERICAULT.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
GERICAULT
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• “The Raft of the Medusa”
– portrays the victims of a
contemporary shipwreck of the
French vessel “Medusa”. The
people on this raft were French
emigrants en route to West Africa.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
GERICAULT
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• “Charging Chasseur”
– His first major work revealed the
influence of the style of Rubens
and an interest in the depiction
of contemporary subject matter.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
GERICAULT
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• “Insane Woman”
– One of several portraits
Gericault made of the
mentally disabled that has a
peculiar hypnotic power.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
GERICAULT
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• “Cattle Market”
– depicts the scene of a
cattle market in an Italian
country setting.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
GERICAULT
• FAMOUS
WORKS
• “Guillotined Heads”
– presents a gruesome
depiction of death and
decay.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
• DIED GERICAULT
• January 26, 1824
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• William Turner
• Born:  April 23, 1775
• from London
• He was one of the greatest
English landscape painters,
renowned for his dramatic and
atmospheric treatment of light.
• He used light and glowing color
and blurred images in painting.
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• William Turner
• His works consisted of
drawings, watercolors, and
oil painting.
• He built a gallery in his
house to display most of
his paintings.
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER

WHAT ARE THE FAMOUS

ARTWORKS BY WILLIAM
TURNER?
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• FAMOUS
WORKS:
• “The fighting Temeraire”
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• FAMOUS
WORKS:
• “Rain, Steam and Speed”
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• FAMOUS
WORKS:
• “Dutch Boats in a Gale
('The Bridgewater Sea
Piece')”
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• FAMOUS
WORKS:
• “Burning of the Houses of
Parliament”
 JOSEPH MALLORD
WILLIAM TURNER
• DIED
• December 19, 1851
• Buried in St. Paul’s
Cathedral.