History of Art: Age of Romanticism

Use these online videos to study the History of Art and artists and paintings of The Romantic Era

With this title, you'll explore a turbulent era that witnessed the triumphs and final defeat of the ideal Romantic hero, Napoléon Bonaparte. Use our 2 online educational video titles to explore a turbulent yet heroic era that began with the French Revolution and witnessed Napoléon, Lord Byron, and the publication of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Discover how the art of Romanticism (1789-1860) expressed a fundamental change in society: the emergence of the common man and the triumph of the individual. See magnificent artistic works by Constable, Delacroix, Goya, Turner, and many others. View ruins in dreamlike settings...sunsets and moonlight; shipwrecks and stormy seas...scenes of struggle and conflict. Listen to excerpts from musical compositions by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn why Napoléon often is regarded as the consummate Romantic hero.
• Understand how the course of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution affected Romantic artists, and learn how the art of Romanticism expressed a fundamental change in society: the emergence of the common man and the triumph of the individual.
• Identify the characteristics of Romantic paintings, and explore Romantic subjects ranging from sunsets and ruins in dreamlike settings to stormy seas and other scenes of struggle and conflict.
• Name prominent Romantic artists, including Delacroix, Géricault, Goya, Constable, and Turner, and identify some of their famous works of art.

• Art > History Through Art > Romanticism
• The Age and its Art Part 1 (Runtime: 11:55)
• The Age and its Art Part 2 (Runtime: 09:33)