Romanticism as a movement dominated literature, music, art & architecture in Europe (19th century). Originated as a reaction to idealisation & rationality in Classicism (18th century). It emphasised passionate self-expressions, individualism & glorification of nature. An imaginative, spontaneous & visionary era.
Famous artists – Thomas Cole, Francisco Goya, JMW Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Eugene Delacroix, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Friedrich Schlegal, Johann Goethe, John Keats. PB Shelley.