Romanticism

Romanticism A revolutionary movement in literature, music, and art, which began in the middle- to late-18th century, reaching its peak in the 19th century. The Romantic movement asserted the primacy of the senses and the emotions as arbiters of perception, in contrast to the Classical period's idealization of reason. Awareness of nature became an obsessive theme, and nature was seen as a mirror of the shifting moods of the artist. Other influences were: exotic and foreign cultures, interest in…