Romantic Writers• Heros were mysterious, melancholoy

and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny.

• Examples: Johann Wolfgang and Alexandre Dumas

• Faust, Three Musketeers, The Hunchback of Nortre Dame.

Sir Walter Scott

Johann Wolfgang

Alexandre Dumas

Romantic Architecture

• Medieval Gothic style for buildings and the look of towns.

Romantic Art• Capture the beauty and power of

nature.

• Painted many subjects from peasants to knights to current events.

• Bright colors conveyed violent energy and emotion.

Eugene Delacroix-Liberty Leading the People

Ah ah!

Romantic Music• Inspired deep emotion.

• Traditional folk melodies glorified a nations past.

Frederic Chopin• Used Polish peasant dances to convey

the sorrows and joys of people living under foreign occupation.

First Orchestra!• Took shape in the 1800’s.

Ludwig von Beethoven(1770-1827)

• First to use orchestra• Wrote from the heatrt conveying intense

emotional struggle.• Admired Napoleon until he crowned himself

emporer.• Produced 9 symphonies total , an opera, and

dozens of small pieces.• 1798-Began to lose hearing. Died in poverty,

angry and depressed.

Realism• Attempt to represent the world as it was

without sentiment.

• Artists were committed to reforming or improving the lives of the less fortunate.

Realist Literature• Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist,

Depicted crime and lives of the poor.

• Victor Hugo: Les Miserable, Depicted how hunger drove a man to crime.

• Emile Zola: Germinal, Depicted warfare in the mining industry.

Charles Dickens

Victor Hugo

Realist Drama• Henrik Ibsen: Doll’s House, Illustrates

how women are caught in a straight jacket of social rules.

Realist Art• Ordinary subjects, especially working

class men and women.

Female Realists• Charlotte Brontes-Jane Eyre

• Emily Brontes-Wuthering Heights

• Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Kate Chopin-The Awakening

HarrietBeecher Stowe Kate Chopin

Photography• Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot

produced first successful phtographs.• Stiff portraits of the middle class or

prominent people.• Later used to expose slums and social

ills.• Matthew Brady-Exposed civil war

corpses on the battlefield.