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‘ROMANTICISM (c. 1760-1870[ce])

‘Romanticism is a term loosely used in both a historical and an aesthetic sense to designate numerous changes in the arts during a period of more than 100 years (roughly, 1760-1870[ce]), in reaction against Neoclassicism (but not necessarily the classicism of Greece and Rome) or against what is variously called the Age of Reason, the Augustan Age, the Enlightenment, or 18th-century Materialism. Romantic art therefore reflects a climate of feeling in western culture so abundant and diverse in its forms of expression as to defy any concise elucidation. A question of personal approach, romantic attitudes have been present at all times, but the period that has earned the title Romantic and that stretches roughly from the last decades of the 18th century [ce] until the middle of the 19th century [ce]* saw an unprecedented flow of works, the prime impulse and effect of which derived from individual rather than collective reactions. Its chronological development begins in northern Europe with a rejection of prevailing standards of excellence based on the classical ideal that perfection could and should be sought and attained in art.’

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*ie narrower than above:

cf Neoclassicism 1780-1850[ce]

64m~|G~1776[ce]

64s~|R~1848[ce]

**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 361-362

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