(Neoclassicism & Romanticism) ROMANTICISM [continued (50)] [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘The decline and legacy of Romanticism. The change in attitude to Gothic in the 1840s[ce]* was part of a general reaction to the assumptions of Romanticism. In painting this can be found in the French painter Courbet's evolution from the posturings of his early self-portraits to such untheatrical portrayals of modern life as "The Stonebreakers" (1849[ce]; believed destroyed), in the English Pre-Raphaelites' alliance of revivalism with naturalism, and in the German artist Adolph von Menzel's use of the painterly manner to make dispassionate records of contemporary bourgeois life in Berlin.’

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** – ibid [(Encyclopaedia of Visual Art)]: 768

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