Classwork - Use the material below to answer the questions on the class worksheet. You should do this after you have read the section of the notes about the Romantic Movement. The ideas of the Romantic Movement had an important contribution to the development of Nationalism - particularly in Germany.
Source # 1 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes Romanticism by saying:
Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789 ... ...In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recall the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime.
Source # 2 - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Casper David Friedrich (1817)
Source # 4 - Salisbury Cathedral by John Constable (1825)
Source # 5 - Medieval Town by Water by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1813)
Source # 6 - Mephistopheles in Flight by Delacroix (1828)
Source # 7 - Liberty Leading the People - Delacroix (1830)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
