#romanticism — Public Fediverse posts
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"Moonlight, Study," Fanny Churberg, 1878.
Churberg (1845-92) was a Finnish landscape painter.
The daughter of a doctor and fiercely proud of her Finnish heritage, she began artistic training in 1865 after the deaths of both her parents, and moving in with an aunt, along with her brothers. She was an industrious painter, doing 300 canvases in a 15-year career.
While her style was strictly in the Dusseldorf School (an extension of the Romantic movement, with a focus on meticulously detailed landscapes, often with religious or moral allegory), she did differ from them a slight bit with her short brushstrokes and energetic style. She was passionate about the Finnish landscape and sought to translate such events as an approaching thunderstorm, or moonlight on a cloudy night, as accurately as possible.
She stopped painting in 1880; some say it was her own declining health and the death of her brother Torsten from TB. Others say it was harsh reviews of her work. But she remained involved in the artistic world, encouraging other painters, until her death at 46,
She has been rediscovered in the last 20 years and now is valued for her passionate depictions of turbulent nature.
From the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.
#Art #FannyChurberg #DusseldorfSchool #Landscape #WOmenArtists #WomensHistory #Romanticism
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On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00337 -
On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00337 -
On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00337 -
On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00337 -
On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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Ah, the good ol' days of loving computers 🤖❤️, when nerds were fueled by #floppy #disks and not by Silicon Valley snake oil. Who knew an overgrown calculator could inspire such poetry and profound #nostalgia, while #AI #villains cackle in the background? Clearly, the author missed the memo: the '90s called, they want their #tech #romanticism back! 😂
https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/ #90s #HackerNews #ngated -
#52booksin52weeks 50. Set in a Castle - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ##ComingOfAge #poverty #romanticism #romance #nature #freedom #history #Modernity #youngadulthood #1930s #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #booktok #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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In 1948, François Le Lionnais (1901–84) published an essay in which he distinguished two types of beauty in mathematics:
• ‘Classical’ mathematical beauty, which impressed by its control and austerity.
• ‘Romantic’ mathematical beauty, which manifested in wildness, non-conformity, and strangeness.
Classical beauty was found where there was unification, such as in the 9-point circle of a triangle (see 1st attached image), or how the circle, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola all arise from the focus–directrix construction (see 2nd attached image) and from conic sections, and can transformed into one another by projective transformations.
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#MathematicalBeauty #ClassicalBeauty #Classicism #RomanticBeauty #Romanticism #ClassicalVsRomantic #aesthetics
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Spent a good deal of time browsing the Smithsonian's online collection of works from George Catlin's Indian Gallery.
These pictures have long fascinated me. They could be fitted into so many histories: American Indians, romanticism, portraiture, Western art, US art, colonialism, antebellum US history...
#Art #Painting #GeorgeCatlin #IndianGallery #AmericanIndians #Romanticism #WesternArt #Portraiture #US Art #Colonialism
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Went there before the #pandemic and visited Balzac's study
https://www.timeout.com/news/a-museum-dedicated-to-romantic-life-will-reopen-this-valentines-day-in-paris-011926 My photo essay here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2020/04/25/the-romantic-era-from-france-to-spain/ #balzac #literature #romanticism #delacroix -
Death of Sardanapalus, Eugene Delacroix (1827), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/10/death-of-sardanapalus-eugene-delacroix.html
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Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne
Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature
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Sneaking into this #MonsterMonday thread thanks to its name is
"William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love" by @philiphoare.bsky.social
Why does #WilliamBlake continue to inspire poets, artists & filmmakers? Find out in this enthusiastic volume -
Musical Interlude: Here's some classical for you, a little-known Czech composer who did some nice work.
"Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major," composed by Zdeněk Fibich, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0AhxPtKvmk
#MusicalInterlude #ZdenekFibich #ClassicalMusic #LittleKnownComposers #Romanticism #MusicalRomanticism
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"Gate in the Rocks," Karl Freidrich Schinkel, 1818.
Schinkle (1781-1841) was a painter, of course, but also an architect, urban planner, and a designer of furniture and theatrical sets. One of his set designs was the oft-reproduced starry set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute" which you've probably seen somewhere. He also helped chape Berlin from being a small provincial city to a major capitol.
As an architect, he mostly worked in a Neoclassical style until turning to Neo-Gothic in his later life; artistically, he was solidly a Romantic. This dramatic canvas seems to have been influenced by a trip to Friulia, a region of Italy by the German border. If it looks anything like this, I want to go.
From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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"Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin," Carl Gustav Carus, c. 1828.
German-born Carus (1789-1869) wasn't just an artist...he was also a doctor, naturalist, scientist, and psychologist, and he studied landscape painting under the great Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, whose influence can be seen here.
He was personal physician to King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, and traveled with him to meet Queen Victoria. As a naturalist, he originated the notion of vertebrates vs. invertebrates, gently revolutionizing biology. He was also a prolific author, writing books on zoology, nature, medicine, psychology, travel, and art theory.
Here we have a scene from inside a ruined monastery, built in 1369 and abandoned in 1546, and which became a favorite haunt of the Romantics in the 1820s. Despite the Gothic material, the feeling it gives is almost positive and hopeful, looking through the ruins to a new day.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CarlGustaveCarus #Gothic #Ruins #RenaissanceMan
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@Vagrarian
“There werewolf... (Other side). There werewolf...”#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps
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"Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835.
Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.
The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...
From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps
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"Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1823-35.
Happy birthday to Caspar David Friedrich, born this day in 1774!
He was THE great Romantic artist, often doing allegorical paintings of human figures contemplating some natural scene that dwarfs them...or maybe Gothic ruins (because, after all, Gothicism is an outgrowth of Romanticism).
Here he's got a small human figure pausing by the side of a lake in a dramatic mountain landscape. If you squint a little, you can make out a large building on the other side of the lake, perhaps a palace of some sort (just over the man's head) but it's overwhelmed in size and majesty by the lake and the mountains. This is Friedrich's message...that Nature will always be bigger than Man.
His tragedy was that he outlived his fame; his style went out of fashion and when he died in 1840, he was lonely and half-forgotten. But in modern times he's been rediscovered and his art revived...especially as it's now in public domain and has been used as cover art for various editions of Gothic novels and the like. His dramatic views help set the tone.
From a private collection.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #landscape
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"Geroldsauer Valley Close to Baden-Baden," Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855.
Schirmer (1807-1863) started as a painter of historical scenes, but later found his calling as a landscape painter, one of the founding members of what was later known as the Dusseldorf School. His work embraced both Classicism and Romanticism, and also included Biblical scenes.
Here we have a real-life valley in Germany, depicts an early morning in that golden time of late summer/early fall. A woman with a parasol and a young man (lower right) are wandering, taking in the air. Below us stretches a vista of farm fields, trees, and scattered houses, including a mill. A road stretches through the valley, following a stream. In the distance we have various peaks of the Black Forest mountains, realistically depicted.
I love this scene; it reminds me so much of the Appalachian scenery of my home.
From the Staatsliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #JohannWilhelmSchirmer #Landscapes #Drama #Mountains #Nostalgia
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Really fascinating references to James #Watt and Maria #Edgeworth in #Scott’s preface to The Monastery #ScottishLiterature #Romanticism #c19Studies
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Today I'm trying to finish enough of the section on maternal mortality in #Edgeworth's Ennui and Claudia #Johnstone's Clan Albin to make a passable draft for the upcoming workshop #NationalTale #Romanticism #ScottishLiterature #IrishLiterature #MedicalHumanities
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After a typically helpful #WIP works-in-progress group, I’m feeling energised about my #Edgeworth and infection chapter. But I’m wondering if any of you #MedicalHumanities folks have a recommendation on the politics of infection in the late #eighteenthcentury #romanticism #IrishStudies
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I'll be revising my article on #disability, #illness, and the #Gothic in #Edgeworth's Ennui and #Scott's The Black Dwarf #Romanticism #IrishStudies #MedHums
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I have a student who's going through an exceptionally hard time, but just submitted a KICK ASS draft of a final paper looking at the representation of maternal emotions and "failed caretakers" in #Edgeworth's Belinda and #Austen's Persuasion in order to critique the differing responses to the conflation of women and care #Romanticism #MedHums #TeachingToot