Romanticism

Introduction

Romanticism is an artistic movement emerged in the eighteenth century in Britain and Germany, then in the early nineteenth century in France, in Italy and Spain. It grows in France under the restoration and July Monarchy in response to regular classical considered too rigid and rationalist philosophy of earlier centuries. Romanticism can be characterized by a willingness to explore all the possibilities of art to express the ecstasies and the torments of the heart and the soul, it is thus a reaction of feeling against the reason, exalting mystery and fantastic and seeking escape and delight in the dream, the morbid ...