1. La Liberté guidant le peuple,
Delacroix
Theodore Gericault
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog ,Friendrich
ENRIQUE VÁZQUEZ
18th April 2012

2. INDEX
HISTORICISM
ROMANTICISM
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
SOURCES

3. HISTORICISM
HISTORICISM was an art style in architecture that apperared in the
first half of the 19th century.
Archistects drew inspiration from styles of the past.
There were buildings also with New Classicist style
There was a revaival of styles of the past. The most important styles
revived by Historicism were:
-Neo-Byzantine
-Neo-Romanesque
-Neo-Gothic
-Neo-Mudéjar
London Parliament
-Neo-Baroque

4. Oldest part, from 11th Big Ben
Victoria century
tower
We can appreciate Gothic art
style characteristics, for
example the high quantity of
windows, and the pinnacles.
This building was finished in
1870, so we can classify it as
and example of Neo-Gothic
style.
LONDON PARLIAMENT

5. LONDON PARLIAMENT
In 1834 a fire destroyed the Palace of
Westminster , leaving only the Jewel Tower,
the crypt and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire, a
competition was organized to create a new
building for the two houses of parliament.
A design by Sir Charles Barry and his assistant
Augustus Welby Pugin was selected. They
created a large but balanced complex in neo
Gothic style and incorporated the buildings
that survived the fire.
The whole complex was finished in 1870, more
than 30 years after the Big Ben construction
started. The building includes the Clock
Tower, Victoria Tower, the House of
Commons, the House of Lords,
Westminster Hall and the Lobbies.
The most famous part of Charles Barry's
design is the elegant clock tower. Originally
called St. Stephen's Tower, it was soon
named after the tower's largest bell, the Big
Ben. A light at the top of the tower is
illuminated when Parliament is meeting at
night.

6. Neo-Byzantine
Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, Kronstadt
Cathedral of Saint Vladimir in Kiev

7. Neo-Romanesque
The Smithsonian Institution Building, St Mary and St Nicholas parish church,Wilton,
Wiltshire, England

8. Neo-Gothic
Parliament Hill, Ottawa Upper part of Spasskaya tower in
Moscow Kremlin

9. Neo-Mudéjar
Las Ventas, Madrid
Antiguas Escuelas Aguirre, Madrid

10. Neo-Baroque
Belfast City Hall Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia

11. ROMANTICISM
It developed in the first decades of
the 19th century, not only in art, but
also in literature and music. It was a
new aesthetics, whose main values
were freedom, individualism,
feelings and nationalism, opposed to
rationalism and sciences,
proportions and universalism of
New Classicism. The Romantic artist
refused Antiquity and went back to
Middle Ages and evasion to far
places in time and space. The main Thomas Cole
themes were wild nature, exotic
places, the unknown, folklore and
traditions.
Abtei im Eichwald,
Friendrich

12. PAINTING
The main features of Romantic
painting were movement, colour
and light (bright colours with loose
brush-strokes and full of light
paintings) and wild natural
landscapes.
Characteristic of Romantic painting:
- Movement opposed to the Classicist Hannibal Crossing the Alps, Turner
camnless.
- Live expression of emotions.
- Freedom exaltation, opposed to
academic rules.
- Imagination and emotions are more
important than Reason and
Thinking.
San Juan de los
Reyes, inside

13. IMPORTANT PAINTERS
FRANCE
THÉODORE GÉRICAULT
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26
September 1791 26 January 1824) was a
profoundly influential French artist,
painter and lithographer, known for The
Raft of the Medusa and other paintings.
Although he died young, he became one The Raft of the Medusa,
of the pioneers of the Romantic Géricault
movement.
EUGÈNE DELACROIX
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26
April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was Frédéric Chopin,
a French Romantic artist regarded from Delacroix
the outset of his career as the leader of the
French Romantic school. Delacroix's use
of expressive brushstrokes and his study
of the optical effects of colour profoundly
shaped the work of the Impressionists,
while his passion for the exotic inspired
the artists of the Symbolist movement. A
fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated
various works of William Shakespeare, the The Barque of
Scottish writer Walter Scott and the Dante
German writer Johann Wolfgang von

14. IMPORTANT PAINTERS
GERMANY
CASPAR DAVID FRIENDRICH
Woman at the
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – Window, Friendrich
May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German
Romantic landscape painter, generally
considered the most important German artist
of his generation. He is best known for his
mid-period allegorical landscapes which
typically feature contemplative figures
silhouetted against night skies, morning mists,
barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary
interest as an artist was the contemplation of
nature, and his often symbolic and anti-
classical work seeks to convey a subjective,
emotional response to the natural world.
Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a
human presence in diminished perspective Rainbow
amid expansive landscapes, reducing the in a
figures to a scale that, according to the art mountain
historian Christopher John Murray, directs landscape,
"the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical Friendrich
dimension".

15. IMPORTANT PAINTERS
GREAT BRITAIN
JOSEPH WILLIAM TURNER The Fighting
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 Temeraire
tugged to her
April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an last Berth to
English Romantic landscape
be broken,
painter, watercolorist and printmaker. Turner
Turner was considered a controversial
figure in his day, but is now regarded
as the artist who elevated landscape
painting to an eminence
rivaling history painting. Although
renowned for his oil paintings, Turner
is also one of the greatest masters of
British watercolor landscape painting.
He is commonly known as "the painter
of light" and his work is regarded as a
Romantic preface to Impressionism. The BurningLords
Houses of
of the
and Commons,
Turner

16. IMPORTANT PAINTERS
SPAIN
Portrait of
VALERIANO BÉCQUER Gustavo
He was the son of the painter Jose Dominguez Becquer, Adolfo
nephew of the Bécquer,
painter JoaquinDominguez Becquer and brother of Valeriano
the poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. It began in the Bécquer
painting with his father, although he studied
under Antonio Cabral Bejarano.
Moved to Madrid, his brother opened the
doors of the artistic capital of the kingdom.
PEREZ VILLAALMIL
Jenaro Pérez Villaamil (1807-1854) was born
in Ferrol, Galicia. He was a remarkable painter and
prime example of the Galician Romantic Movement.
In his work, particularly in his landscapes, he shows
an unmistakable taste for the English painters of the
same period. Most of his paintings are exhibited
at Museo del Prado in Madrid, the city where he died.
MARIANO FORTUNY
Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was
a Catalan painter. His brief career encompassed both Vicaria, Fortuny
the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes,
and a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.

17. THE LION HUNT
DELACROIX

18. THE LION HUNT
 Located in the Chicago Art Institute, in
the USA. The technique used is Oil over
Canvas and its dimensions are 76,5 cm x
98,5 cm. It was finished in 1861.
 Delacroix was fascinated by the theme of
the struggle between men and wild
animals. So did Rubens,
who Delacroix admired.
 This painting represents the hunting
scene in a landscape of dunes,
which appear to the right, and the dark
blue sea on the left. And the nature is
represented reduced to the elemental
forces: sky, water and earth. Above the
scene, a cloudy sky. Looking closely at
the scene we can see that there are
already two Arabians who have been shot
down in battle and another one lies dead.
But the other four are directed against the
wild beasts to kill, and yet there is an
eighth one that is going to attack.

19. THE LION HUNT
 The frame is made up around
two diagonals intersected. The
main action takes place at the
centre of the scene. The
fight itself describes a circular
motion, creating a whirlwind of
men and animals. The Arabians,
brown, with elastic movements,
reacting instinctively, have
already some ressemblance to
the beasts.
 The fact that
warriors are Arabians can mean
a clear escape to exotic and
distant worlds or it can
mean Delacroix´s
clear taste of Arabian culture
after several trips to Morocco.

20. SCULPTURE Rude,The
Marseillaise
Romantic sculptors focused on
expressing feelings and
movement and there was a
preference for patriotic themes.
Sculpture attempts to follow painting
from afar.
The sculptors did not follow the
Gothic models, or Romanesque
models of the Middle Ages, so
they modified very
poorly neoclassical models, giving
them more movement and more
inspiration in nature.
Barrias, The
caiman hunter

21. IMPORTANT SCULPTORS
The most importnat city during the
Romanticism in sculpture was Paris
FRANÇOISE RUDE Mercury
Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's fastening
his sandals,
trade as a stovemaker till the age of Rude
sixteen, but received training in
drawing from François
Devosges, where he learned that a
strong, simple contour was an
invaluable ingredient in the plastic
arts. In 1809 he went to Paris from
the Dijon school of art, and became a
pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining
the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812. After
the second restoration of
the Bourbons he retired to Brussels,
where, probably owing to the
intervention of the exiled Jacques-
Louis David he got some work under
the architect Charles Vander
Straeten, who employed him to
execute nine bas-reliefs in the palace
of Tervuren, now destroyed.

22. IMPORTANT SCULPTORS
ANTONIE LOUIS BARYE
Antoine-Louis Barye (September 24, 1796 –
June 25, 1875) was a French sculptor most
famous for his work as an animalier, a
sculptor of animals.
Born in Paris, Barye began his career as
a goldsmith, like many sculptors of
the Romantic Period. He first worked under
his father, but around 1810 worked under the
sculptor Guillaume-Mertin Biennais, who
was a goldsmith to Napoleon. After studying
under sculptor Francois-Joseph Bosio in 1816
and painter Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, he was
(in 1818) admitted to the École des Beaux
Arts.
Thésée et
le
Minotaure,
Barye

23. IMPORTANT SCULPTORS
JEAN BATISTE CARPEAUX
Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of
a mason, his early studies were
under François Rude. Carpeaux
entered the École des Beaux-
Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de
La Danse, Rome in 1854, and moving to
Carpeaux Rome to find inspiration, he
there studied the works
of Michelangelo, Donatello and V Carpeaux
errocchio. Staying in Rome from
1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste
for movement and spontaneity,
which he joined with the great
principles of baroque art.
Carpeaux sought real life subjects
in the streets and broke with the
classical tradition.

24. SOURCES
INFORMATION
- PEREZ FONS PAQUI, Social Sciences book,
- RED NACIONAL ESCOLAR, VENEZUELA, http://
www.rena.edu.ve/cuartaEtapa/historiaArte/Tema14.
html
- A VIEW ON CITIES, http://www.aviewoncities.com/
london/housesofparliament.htm
- WIKIPEDIA, The Lion Hunt, Delacroix, http://
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_caza_del_le%C3%B3n
- ROMANTIC SCULPTURE, by Eric A, http://
www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/scultpureplastic/
sculpturehistory/romanticsculpture/romanticsculpture
/romanticsculpture.htm

25. SOURCE
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PICTURES
WIKIPEDIA
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portraits_Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix.jpg?uselang=es
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turner_selfportrait.jpg?uselang
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_
Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_022.jpg?uselang=es
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rude_Marseillaise.jpg?uselang
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francois-rude-sculptor-
engraving.jpg?uselang=es
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonnat08.jpg?uselang=es
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