PERIOD:
second half of 18th century
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
| England: |
Georges’ Age |
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Industrial Revolution
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The world: |
French Revolution |
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American Revolution |
LITERATURE
1) Search for a new world in contrast with the real world
| Neoclassicism: |
In the Classical Age |
| Pre-romanticism: |
feelings, sensibility |
2) Idea of beauty
| Neoclassicism: |
beautiful means-------> |
* regularity |
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* rationality |
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* balance |
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* classical harmony |
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“beautiful”--------------> |
the idea of perfection |
Pre-romanticism: |
“sublime”(Burke) --------> |
* importance of feelings |
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* strength |
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* irregularity |
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* irrationality |
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Beautiful --------------> |
a quality which didn’t existin things but
in the mind of those who observed them. It is individual
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3) The Grand Tour
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Importance for the antiquity
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Cult of Ruins
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4) Nature
| Neoclassicism: |
Universal order |
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Pre-romanticism:
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a thing which provokes emotions and feelings
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5)Exaltation of Medioeval poetry -------> McPherson Ossian
One of the chief exponent of the period, in England, is THOMAS GRAY
6)In ART:
| Neoclassicism: |
CANOVA |
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DAVID |
| Pre-romanticism: |
PIRANESI
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